"I have never had an accident where I have pressed a button and accidentally sent seven chapters into cyberspace, never to be seen again," he points out. "And have you ever tried to hack into my typewriter? It is very secure."Touche to you, sir. The main perk I see in a typewriter is no internet, no solitaire (spider or otherwise), no distractions (no this blog is not one massive distraction from potentially more important work, hush). That said, no one would write me comments if this blog was typewriter based. So huzzah technology—you are more useful than not!
12.02.2009
Some people still use typewriters, also mimeographs
Ok, the mimeograph part was a joke. But many authors heart their typewriters. Says Frederick Forsythe:
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"I have never had an accident where I have pressed a button and accidentally sent seven chapters into cyberspace, never to be seen again."
ReplyDeleteNeither have I. That's what the Undo button is for.
The typewriter hack: "Thomas Carlyle was the victim of a famous misfortune after writing the first volume of The French Revolution. He entrusted the manuscript to his friend John Stuart Mill for review; shortly afterwards, Mill's maid mistook the manuscript for trash paper and burned it. Carlyle was forced to rewrite the entire volume from scratch."
ReplyDeleteI myself have confused bound and published books for trash, so I can understand the maid's confusion.
ReplyDeleteShe's not a maid! She's a worm.
ReplyDeleteHm. I think I might've seen a Dr. Who with this plot ...
Actually, your blog IS a distraction. Constantly craving waffles can only lead to NO GOOD.
ReplyDeletealso typewriters, for me anwyay, = typos.
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