Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => The Writing Forum => Topic started by: bolddeceiver on September 21, 2007, 07:49:10 AM
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I was at the thrift store today, and made a great find...
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It's a Smith-Corona Classic 12 portable manual typewriter. Full working condition, a pretty fresh ribbon, and absolutely beautiful. And almost embarassingly cheap.
Now, this wouldn't have that much to do with writing, except that I know for a fact that when I am forced to (A) write in a fairly linear fashion and (B) retype later drafts, I tend to write a lot better. However, hand-writing more than a few pages at a time leaves me with a hand-cramp, and my handwriting gets bad enough when I'm writing quickly and in a writing trance that I can't always read it when I get back to type it up. And I just don't have the discipline to retype something I printed off the computer.
I'm looking forward to getting to know this little machine better.
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Neat. I use the computer for second and higher numbered drafts for ease of editting, etc. First drafts are done in ink. I have a little collection of about a half dozen nice fountain pens that I rotate through (although the Retro51 double 8 seems to have somehow earned the job of scoring baseball games). I just like the sensual feel of it more than banging keys.
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WOW. Pretty. I haven't seen one of those since I was in highschool. I'd love one, but my wife would put an end to me writing once and for all.
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Ya know whut? It's the spitting image of one we gave to the Salvation Army thrift shop (in Sackville, NB. Canada) last Spring, I believe.
We didn't put a new ribbon in it, but I don't suppose there's a shallow dent in the carrying case, near the front of the top somewhere?