It’s a bittersweet feeling to change the tabs on my typewriter because I’ve finished the limited series screenplay I’ve been working on for the last several years, and now I’m back to narrative prose. And yes, to change the tabs on my Smith-Corona Silent, I have to open a panel on the back of the…
Read MoreSluggin’ It Out
I suppose even workhorses throw a shoe. After two novels and a three or four hour limited-series screenplay, my rock-solid go-to 1951 Smith-Corona Silent lost the number nine key slug. A little bit of soldering (which I haven’t done in decades and wasn’t much good at to begin with) and I’m back in business. Thanks…
Read MoreFeelin’ Saucy with OCR
I love the idea of using a typewriter, but what on Earth do you do about editing? RE-TYPE the WHOLE manuscript? Ugh! I hear that from people all the time. I’m no tech guru, but it really isn’t so difficult. The key (pun intended) is optical character recognition (OCR). Virtually all smart devices and all-in-one…
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