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Using Typewriters To Write Short Stories in 2022
I love simple things. I love practical things. So why not use typewriters for my writing, as have countless others before me? Convenience. But isn’t convenience what ultimately makes us fat and lazy? Where’s the benefit in convenience when we don’t spend our whole day hunting and putting our very lives on the line like we used to do for thousands of years? Where convenience meant staying alive longer. Choosing the safe blueberry bush next to your cave over hunting prehistoric beasts to survive another day.
As the old saying goes and every blogger on the face of the earth that ever wrote a self-improvement article will not hesitate to tell you…
“Growth happens outside the comfort zone.”
Badabing. Life changed, mind blown. Not really. But I thought “Hey, let’s put this to the test.” and went to write several short stories in a few days time, only using my typewriters. Here’s the story about how it went.
Tools of the craft
I own several typewriters, most of them in near mint condition. For this little experiment I used my Olympia Traveller de Luxe and my Olympia SM-9 Monica. The latter is a full desktop typewriter with very smooth action and the…
