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Wow, quite uncanny. You look like my son. And he’s an engineer, too!!
ReplyDeleteHaha, maybe it's because we all dress alike.
ReplyDeleteHi. Is that a Royal Portable Standard?
ReplyDeleteWow. Sharp eye, I'm impressed! It's a 1936 Royal portable. I love it.
ReplyDeleteSharp eye, perhaps. But it is a bad sign. I am hopelessly addicted to collecting typewriters. Stay away.
ReplyDeleteThis site helped: machinesoflovinggrace.com
BTW, I am fascinated by your typecasting; not at all like my thirteen-page blithering typecasts. Very nice technique. And economy of words. And I am very interested how you do it. Specifically the writing part. Do you edit? Or do you just know exactly what you want to say before you type?
My writing style on a machine is still in its formative stages. Once I start, I can't stop, and it ends up being %99 garbage, with an occasional rare gem intertwined. I haven't even tried extracting the gems, only; haven't even begun to approach rewriting on a machine yet.
All of your posts are, really, pretty gem-like. Tell me it's a cinch, and I'll hate you. ;) Keep up the good work.
About the writing process:
ReplyDeleteI used to keep a journal on the typewriter. It was ideal, becasue the thing was loaded with paper at my desk and just ready to go whenever something came to mind. (Instant boot time!)
Some of the entries were rambling, but some of them ended up being funny, and I wanted to share and make people laugh. So I started writing more things down specifically for www.AwkwardEngineer.com
If it's a short entry, its probably something that was rattling in my head all day and that's just how it came out.
If it's a longer entry, I may have composed it ahead of time and transcribed it. You can usually tell because typos go down and consistent use of past or present tense goes up.
I usually take a picture of entries with my phone, upload directly to picasaweb, which has online photo editing, and then ties directly to blogger.
After a while, I get a bunch of loose leaf entries, and I eventually bind them into a book. I'm planning on writing a more detailed narrative when I'm done, but for now there are some pictures on Facbeook of the work in progress. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.166418233420446.42729.155089787886624&saved#!/media/set/?set=a.166418233420446.42729.155089787886624
Awkward Engineer, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe book making pics are amazing. I would immediately start doing that myself, but I have to focus on just writing, to get the tons of total crap out that have built up in the pipes for years of my not writing.
And I just realized that you are the guy Tom mentions in his blog (Life in a Typewriter Shop), with the Royal 'O' model! That story is one of the reasons I decided to start writing again, and on a typewriter, specifically.
So, again, thank you.