![]() Answer the same questions, watch the same wonder. Take a machine for each student in my high school writing class. Watch the wonder as the students try out the unfamiliar machine. Take the model of typewriter featured in the stories. Visit a middle school history class studying the American Girl stories of Kit Kittredge. A quiet-ish typewriter, if possible.Įnter a speed typing competition (held at the above). Take a machine to a coffee shop to write. Host a Letter Writing Night for friends and neighbors: good food, a fun time together, and a pile of finished mail to take home. Photograph one in the early morning light of my studio, taking an image each day as the start to a studio session. Marvel at the design of a vintage machine. ![]() (I like the Ikea FABRIKÖR cabinet, though get thicker glass cut for the shelves.) Have a beloved machine out on each desk I use, ready for inspiration.ĭisplay others and enjoy looking at them. Perhaps have a joke joust with one of my kids. Leave a typewriter out on the hall table for family messages to be randomly added. For a potential repair shop near you, check out this list.) But I have thoroughly enjoyed when I am able to do the cleaning myself. More frequently I take a machine to the typewriter shop. Methodically clean the inner workings of a newly found machine, while listening to an entire Agatha Christie novel. Want to buy a typewriter? I summarized some things to consider.Įxplore the history of a model, on one of a myriad of sites such as Robert Messenger’s Oz Typewriter, or Richard Polt’s many-faceted Classic Typewriter Page.Įnjoy the antics of the cat when a new typewriter and its case comes into the house. Oh, the joy of the pursuit and the things there are to learn! Whether I purchase or not, each intriguing model leads me to search out more history. Or in person, browsing at a thrift store or, better yet, at Cambridge Typewriter, my local typewriter shop. Shop for one! Either online at sites like Etsy or local typewriter finds on Facebook Marketplace. Slow communication.Īsk myself a question. The next episode arrives, granddaughter-dictated, from across the country a few weeks later. Type out a collaborative story episode for my granddaughter, as written by my youngest, aka Aunty A. Also postcards and notes to mail.Ĭompile lists for especially complicated errands, plans for Christmas, or prep for a trip. Write labels, envelopes, index cards: little things that are fussy in a printer. (A first-thing-in-the-morning blurt of anything goes, as outlined by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way.) As I reach the end of a typed page I frequently find solutions I could not have forseen. ![]() Brain dump everything on my mind when I feel stuck or too busy.
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