Reconditioned typewriters from 1955-1969 are better machines than anything produced after 1970. The pinnacle of typewriter technology was around...
I don't know how many of you followed the BBC television series Spooks (I think it was called MI-5 in the US). In that series pilot, we're...
I don't see the point in throwing something away when an entire novel would take up about 1Mb of memory space. Collected, all the scenes I've...
Let me advise you to never throw out any of your writing, no matter how dreadful. It's a good way to measure your progress as a writer, if nothing...
I rewrote pretty much every single paragraph of my first novel, but I found that rewriting became less and less necessary with every new novel,...
My first drafts mainly look like shit because I write them on a typewriter without correcting anything (to overrule my Inner Editor), the first...
To avoid getting mired in self-editing, I write the first draft on a typewriter, without correcting anything. When I have that stack of paper that...
I know for a fact that many offices still have a typewriter just for typing labels and envelopes, because doing that with a printer is such a pain...
Well, I use both. I draft on manual typewriters and edit by retyping the pages on my MacBook. [IMG]
I prefer the tactile experience of typing on manual typewriters for drafting stories/scenes, then I copy the typewritten pages on my computer and...
I don't think you should ask writers whether they use diacritics - I think writers might be the only profession to take writing notes and emails...
Also, you don't not require to start a new chapter when you switch POV, you can do that with a line break as well. Blahblah, Jim was looking...
If you like Philip K. Dick, check out his collected short stories [five or six volumes]. Many of his short stories have been successfully turned...
First off, the most important part is 'getting it all on paper' or, in most cases, in a Word document. When you run out of story, you have a rough...
If you have an iPad or Kindle, you might want to search iBooks or the Kindle store for 'English'. There are a number of free e-books, like James...
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