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For many authors, the tools they used were not the result of obsessive comparisons and ranking, but what was available, that they could afford. And if they deci
by dsr_ 4y ago
For many authors, the tools they used were not the result of obsessive comparisons and ranking, but what was available, that they could afford. And if they decided to replace them, the replacement was likely to have only slightly more research applied: it must be portable because the old heavy one hurts to move around, or it must be heavy because the dog keeps knocking the portable off the table.
We live in the time of the blessing and the curse of choice.
- fipar 4y agoThis, so much. I learned to type on a typewriter. I sadly don’t remember the brand or model as I was a kid, but in my house, we used it /kind of/ as one would use a printer now. We did not type stuff from scratch there. Too expensive (IIRC paper was more of a problem than the ink ribbon, but again, I was a kid). We wrote on paper, by hand, and typed things up when they were ready in their final form. I love love /loved/ that typewriter and would love to have it now to use it every now and then (not sure to write what though, I’m not a writer), but I feel there’s a bit of cargo-cult writing now involving them. As you say, writers used the tool they had at hand. It was no life hack to use a typewriter, it was just better to share text than handwriting for most people.