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Interesting. I believe Tom Hanks is also really into typewriters. However, everything is required to be digital these days and often we're submitting and publi
by bingohbangoh 5y ago
Interesting. I believe Tom Hanks is also really into typewriters.
However, everything is required to be digital these days and often we're submitting and publishing online or in unusual places that, save for a secretary, a typewriter is just impractical.
- apocalypstyx 5y agoIt depends on the process. If you take it that the 1st draft is supposed to be as close to the final as possible (or 1st draft only draft) then computer-first is the only option for modern distribution schemes (excepting typewriter bloggers who photograph typed pages, of course.) However, if it is taken as a given that the text will be revised, broken apart, re-contextualized, added to, subtracted from, etc, then transcribing from one medium to another (typewriter or handwritten to computer, in this case) is merely a point for such to occur. In some regards this can even force good practice in that a casual glance no longer suffices and the text has to be thought about again as it is re-typed.
- WalterBright 5y agoMy dad wrote a book in the 60s. My mom took on the task of typing the book in, over and over and over as the text was manipulated. What drudgery. My dad once told me that someone would get very rich by inventing: 1. a tv that could be hung on the wall like a picture 2. a typewriter that enabled editing the text He was right on both counts. https://generalatomic.com/jetmakers/index.html https://generalatomic.com/jetmakers/index.html