World Development – 17 topics to brainstorm
Spending time looking at maps this month, makes me delve into world building and development. How do you build a
Category: Writing
Quote: Isaac Asimov
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
Errata and Marginalia
Errata lists in the early days of printed books, then, were themselves a sort of early comment section—the place where
Saving Mr. Typewriter
Dear Tom Hanks, Thank you for making typewriters cool again. I think, typewriters force you to think. They offer a
Vintage Typewriters – Which one is right for you?
From the 1920s- 1970s. Which Typewriter is Right for you? This image is courtesy of mycupofretro
Mitsakes happen (whoops, Mistakes!)
Yes, mitsakes (Mistakes) happen. Back when you were using a manual typewriter, there was no backspace or spelling / grammar
Corona Typewriter on Broadway, 1922
This post has an image of a large Corona typewriter on Broadway show Ed Wynn’s The Perfect Fool (1922).
“Striking” facts about the typewriter
Typewriters, or the ideas of typewriters have been around since the fourteenth century. In the beginning, more than one hundred
Dancing on Typewriter Keys, 1937
In 1937’s “Ready Willing and Able” movie features Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon dancing on the typewriter keys, during the
California Typewriter: A Documentary
Doug Nichol’s 2016/2017 documentary film, California Typewriter has a mix of creativity and technology, includes artists, collectors, and writers such
Typewriters in Literary Fiction
Two minutes, four seconds of typewriters on screen, set to Leroy Anderson’s irrepressibly jaunty “The Typewriter.” The supercut, courtesy of Ariel
Getting Words on the Page: Writing Routines
Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different
Writing Tip: Facts
Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts. The writer’s first business is to get at these facts exactly —get
Margins of Protection
#the more you know… Those margins weren’t inserted as a guide for how many sentences you should fit onto a
Unwritten Rules of English Grammar: ‘Tock-tick’, ‘Dong-ding’, ‘Kong-King’
Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the
Dara Rochlin Book Doctor 