Typewriter is a great tool...

[aliensaremagic]

Really been enjoying using my typewriter, it's loud and annoying but switching off and just writing is such a nice feeling! I've read it's great advice to work on a piece, and fix it later. Typewriters make that so good to do. Also the smell is wonderful. Would reccomend

 

[Naomasa298]

I've read it's great advice to work on a piece, and fix it later.

What strategy do you personally use to accomplish that, and what do you recommend as best practise for a typewritten piece?

 

[aliensaremagic]

I've seen people joking about sucking on a slice of lime and having all the hairs plucked from their body(/s) so they write faster. Something like that can work, but also just writing nonsense, or leaving nothing else to do. That's where the typewriter is handy I suppose as you can sit with it and do nothing but write. Maybe some ear plugs or headphones if the noise is too much.

 

[Naomasa298]

I've seen people joking about sucking on a slice of lime and having all the hairs plucked from their body(/s) so they write faster. Something like that can work, but also just writing nonsense, or leaving nothing else to do. That's where the typewriter is handy I suppose as you can sit with it and do nothing but write. Maybe some ear plugs or headphones if the noise is too much.

How do you personally revise your work, given that a typewritten manuscript is non-editable?

 

[Sandor]

How do you personally revise your work, given that a typewritten manuscript is non-editable?

I've seen people use whiteout

 

[GlitterRain]

How do you personally revise your work, given that a typewritten manuscript is non-editable?

Additionally, handwriting in margins would work. If you need a lot more room to edit, using the back of the page or stapling a blank page to the page in question would work.

I think the type of revisions you’re doing is also going to affect how you revise.

Developmental edits - you’re probably going to be typing up a second manuscript (second pass).

Line edits - writing in the margins, white out. Probably would eventually want to type this out as a third pass.

Proofreading (assuming you do your own proofreading) - probably the same as line edits, but hopefully there are less edits. This would be your fourth pass if you did one round of each edit (counting the drafting as the first pass).

Never used a typewriter before, but if I was going to, that would be how I would plan and attempt to follow through with revisions.

 

[Naomasa298]

Additionally, handwriting in margins would work. If you need a lot more room to edit, using the back of the page or stapling a blank page to the page in question would work.

I think the type of revisions you’re doing is also going to affect how you revise.

Developmental edits - you’re probably going to be typing up a second manuscript (second pass).

Line edits - writing in the margins, white out. Probably would eventually want to type this out as a third pass.

Proofreading (assuming you do your own proofreading) - probably the same as line edits, but hopefully there are less edits. This would be your fourth pass if you did one round of each edit (counting the drafting as the first pass).

Never used a typewriter before, but if I was going to, that would be how I would plan and attempt to follow through with revisions.

I'm curious how the OP does it.

 

[Nomad416]

Type ... writer? What is this ancient device to which you refer?

 

[Amontillado]

One of my go-to memories when I need to feel inspired to write is from the first time I sat down at my Dad's Selectric. I think I was in fifth grade, about 1965.

That Selectric wasn't just a typewriter, it was a great engine of communication, a control device able to engage world wide postal delivery and command multi-ton printing presses. It could move the world and I could feel that energy when I touched its keys.

Glorious!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I did my college papers on an ancient black Underwood that required considerable finger strength to depress the keys and carbon paper to make duplicates. Correcting mistakes was a pain. The first time I used an electric machine that corrected mistakes without Liquid Paper or erasures, I was elated. The first time I used a word processor, I was astounded by being able to make corrections and changes before printing with a daisy wheel. Then I learned to use a computer... wow. I harbor no nostalgia for the old Underwood or the Corona that replaced it.

 

[Naomasa298]

Coffee is also a great tool.

 

[Trish]

Coffee is also a great tool.

Arguably the most important one I've got.