Just found your stack, David! Fellow typewriter user here! I use my typewriters for drafting fiction stories. My main model is 1960 Torpedo 18b. I’m super excited to did into your stuff.
Welcome to Substack David! I'm a fan of your work (I've even emailed you before). This is a fun idea for a newsletter and seems like an interesting exercise for writers. I'm just old enough to have used some electric typewriters when I was a kid. (The kind with correction tape built in that didn't really work all that well).
I look forward to reading this! You've got me intrigued about my own writing. I'm curious if the intention of typing each letter and formatting my page in advance, as opposed to my current habit of getting all of my thoughts on the page and going back to reread, edit, rephrase, and reformat will improve my prose or limit it. It seems like it might help me fully formulate ideas before actually writing them out, something I sometimes do in the editing process, depending on the topic.
I'm curious... did you take out a pad and outline what you wanted to say in pen before you wrote, or did you have the general idea in your head and just wing it? Depending on the topic and speaking only for myself, I think I would need to at least map out anything longer than about 500 words if I didn't have the ability to go back and insert a paragraph or maybe remove one.
Anyway, looking forward to your contributions! The mix of the analogue typewriter with the uber-digital Substack isn't lost on me. It seems very much like your style.
Welcome to the typosphere!
I've added you to my blogroll on The Typewriter Revolution blog: https://writingball.blogspot.com
Just found your stack, David! Fellow typewriter user here! I use my typewriters for drafting fiction stories. My main model is 1960 Torpedo 18b. I’m super excited to did into your stuff.
Welcome to Substack David! I'm a fan of your work (I've even emailed you before). This is a fun idea for a newsletter and seems like an interesting exercise for writers. I'm just old enough to have used some electric typewriters when I was a kid. (The kind with correction tape built in that didn't really work all that well).
I look forward to reading this! You've got me intrigued about my own writing. I'm curious if the intention of typing each letter and formatting my page in advance, as opposed to my current habit of getting all of my thoughts on the page and going back to reread, edit, rephrase, and reformat will improve my prose or limit it. It seems like it might help me fully formulate ideas before actually writing them out, something I sometimes do in the editing process, depending on the topic.
I'm curious... did you take out a pad and outline what you wanted to say in pen before you wrote, or did you have the general idea in your head and just wing it? Depending on the topic and speaking only for myself, I think I would need to at least map out anything longer than about 500 words if I didn't have the ability to go back and insert a paragraph or maybe remove one.
Anyway, looking forward to your contributions! The mix of the analogue typewriter with the uber-digital Substack isn't lost on me. It seems very much like your style.
Best,
Virgil
https://lineoffire.substack.com/
Beautiful!