Ok, so typewriters are not the easiest thing to type on once you've been raised on typing on computer keyboards.

I figured this out as I was trying to type up a letter to my niece last week, and it took me forever! Maybe the typewriter will be in name and idea only and people will not come to Pink Author headquarters to sit at long wooden tables, drink hot coffee, and contemplate the next word of their letters at typewriters in front of them like I had envisioned.

So maybe letters will be written at computer keyboards because it is easier to type, but typewriters are easier to figure out. You just put the paper in and you go. I really want to take any difficulties with turning on a machine, opening a program, typing and then printing it out on another machine out of the equation. I want the typing of a letter to be easy.

But typewriters are so darn difficult to type on!! ARG!!

Anyone with any ideas or suggestions, please let me know!

I know it has been awhile since my first and only post on the Pink Author website. So sorry for whomever has read that one and only post and has been hankering for another one.

I am about to buy a 3rd manual typewriter to add to the Pink Author family. It has a nice gray metal body and green keys. Very cool.

If I have not mentioned why I am currently buying manual typewriters, here is the reason: Pink Author will hopefully not only serve as a national (and perhaps someday, international) archive for emails and letters, but will also help promote and encourage letter writing in general. Once I find the space, anyone who is interested may come into the Pink Author Collective/Organization/Museum and use any of the manual typewriters in order to write letters to friends, family members or to answer any of the letters Pink Author receives from people in America or around the world looking for pen pals. I would also like to have schools in the area, make field trips out to Pink Author to learn more about the art of letter writing and to read letters written by civil war soldiers, queens and kings of the past, as well as love letters (clean ones mind you, I am no pervert). This would enable the students to not only improve their writing skills, but hopefully engage them creatively as well. And reading other people's letters are most definitely a fun way to learn about history.

So if anyone out there reading this would like to send me either original letters or digital copies of letters for the Pink Author to archive, that would be fantastic. Please email me at pinkauthor@gmail.com.

Also, it will be necessary for you or the owner of the letters to sign a release form that will allow me to show them to anyone in the public who would like to view them as well as make them available for researchers to use. Please think about whether you are okay with signing such a release or not before contacting me. Of course, please feel free to email me with any questions you might have.

Welcome to Pink Author, an organization I have started in order to archive personal letters and (in the future, money and disk space permitting) emails from this period in human history. Although I will accept letters that are from previous time generations.

I was looking around one day and realized that as a nation and as a world, we are not writing anywhere near as many letters as we once did. Email has become the new written communication medium which is not completely bad (at least people are still writing), and people are writing some pretty fantastic emails out there, but are these emails being printed out or preserved for future generations to read and glean information and a sense of what the world was like at this time period from? Or are we hopelessly losing mass amounts of our own personal history every time an email is deleted or a letter is not written?

It is my hope that people will dig up their grandparents' letters that they have been holding onto and either donate them to the Pink Author organization or will scan them and send the copies to the organization for others to view and read them.

If you would like more information on the organization, please email laura@pinkauthor.com.

In the future, I am hoping to build a huge pink museum to hold all of these letters and emails for researchers, authors, students, and just anyone curious to peruse and read.

Keep checking back for more information.