Ugh, Stupid typewriter!
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 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!
posted by Pink Author at
2:53 PM
2 Comments:
The typewriter is a beautiful machine. I collect them from the old R.C. Allens and such to the first electrics and so one.
Collectively they must weigh a ton.
As for easing the task of your typing, can you view your computer screen as none more than a blank page cranked in (or in this case 'clicked to open') and...
can you think of your computer as none more than a glorified typewriter by using it simply as a word processor? Oh my...that is easy for me to say, although I did use my grandfather's R.C. Allen throughout college (despite access and mandatory use of computers for design and layout classes in Journalism at Auburn, as well as the old cut and paste) but anyway...the R.C. Allen had the old black and red stipe for ink ribbon and a wonderfully distinctive off-set 'e' all its own. I miss that. Enjoyed your webpage...was sent to me by a friend who suggested I would enjoy it, and I will thank her for doing so.
correction 1st paragraph:
...and 'so on.' Not 'one' as well as others...too sleepy to edit now, forgive pls.
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