He was okay. He went to the hospital and got checked out. The only damage was to his shirt and overalls. If this didn’t have that kind of ending, I wouldn’t have made it sound funny. I wouldn’t have written about it at all!
On a technical note, it turns out that I’m not the best at determining when the typewriter is about to run out of page. I’m sure I was better at it once. The transition between pages is a bit messy, but it’s what I got out of the machine.
The first post in almost two years! I’m not the most proud of either this post (terribly short) or the time I took away from this project (terribly long). In fact, I’m dead sure I could’ve done better but I wanted to break the cycle of doing nothing. Getting anything posted was going to be a victory that I could build on.
As you can see, the scanner I use for this work has some dust and whatnot that came through on the resulting scan. I will not be doing anything about this right now. I presume it’ll work itself out as I generate more of these typewritten pages.
I’m going to go to great pains to get more writing done. Typewriter or otherwise. It seems like a fine thing to do.
It’s been a minute since I wrote anything for Typewritten. I’ve had some other writing and non-writing related work that I was doing that sort of took the wind out of the sails for this little project. That and a series of basement improvements meant that my typewriter space had been upended in the name of progress. It’s back now, though.
This isn’t much of a retrospective, though there are some interesting things in there that I’d like to get back to and write up more fully, later. I really, really just wanted to produce something and start this habit back up.
Anyway, the thing that I didn’t anticipate, and the thing that I suspect might be the most important, is how much having the real thing mattered to me versus the abstract version of the thing saved as a representation of a document on a computer somewhere. I can’t articulate just why (yet), but I would encourage anyone reading to try something similar – even if it’s just the ol’ pen and paper combination.
I think, maybe, I’ve had my fill of abstractions for now. Maybe there are enough.
I’m not really satisfied with this one! It has some grammatical errors, it has some typographical errors, and it’s maybe not as fully-formed as I’d like it to be. But, transparently, my main goal at the moment is just to get back in the habit of producing work of any sort again.
Typewritten is a perfectly fine place to do that. When I started it I was aware that I was going to make mistakes and be pretty stubborn about correcting them.
I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this angle sooner, it seems obvious in retrospect. It’s also a fantastic argument to collect other typewriters and write with their individual idiosyncrasies. I am unlikely to do that to any great extent, though.
Technically, this is a banner day: I did not make any obvious mistakes when writing that and really nailed it on the first try. I don’t believe I made any non-obvious mistakes, either, but then that’s what I would say, by definition.
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