This is where the writing usually happens. After Carole told me that Joyce Carol Oates has returned to using a typewriter, though, I couldn't get it out of my head. I found and bought an Hermes 3000* (well, I bought two accidentally. When the other one arrives, I'll see which I like better and sell the other). My idea is that I'm going to try drafting on the typewriter and revising on computer. In theory it should work out. I've learned that I'm not as good a typist as my computer lets me pretend to be.
I'm struggling with a name for my new machine. Any suggestions? Oh, you want a look at the new writing digs?
*I did not buy it from this site. Even I wouldn't pay that much for a new fancy.
A name for that beautiful typewriter? Hmmm, she looks like a Sophie to me.
Posted by: Jennifer | February 01, 2009 at 05:24 PM
Wow. Just looking at that makes my fingers hurt. You're a better man than I am...
Posted by: Nora | February 02, 2009 at 06:36 AM
Hmm.. she's really pretty and soft yet slightly shy and sexy. 1920s she says. i dunno why.
thank you for the link to the site. i think i've figured out what brand my typewriter was (Olivetti Lettera (it was blue, i hate pink; i remember a red key but will have to try to find a photo to verify)) i want one, but probably need to replace my laptop this year.
Posted by: penny | February 02, 2009 at 08:24 AM
How about Hermena!
I think using a real typwriter is excellent. It will slow you down a bit but that makes for good writing. You feel like you are back in another era too. I love my typewriter Although not quite as vintage as it is electric!
Posted by: Nancy | February 02, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I'm sorry, but that typewriter is a boy and it's name is Claude. Just Claude. On a lighter note, I really think you ought to film your own version of the "Murder, She Wrote" intro.
Posted by: Ava | February 02, 2009 at 05:40 PM
That is an amazing typewriter.
As for a name? Madison (or Maddie for short)?
Posted by: robotlove | February 02, 2009 at 08:46 PM
OMG, Po, I bought one of those, almost identical, when I was a sophomore in college back in the extremely dark ages (try 1965). It was compact and solid and heavy for its size and it worked damn near forever! I am sure I still had it when I moved to New Mexico from Hawaii in 1990. I don't want to go back to the typewriter...for one thing, my arthritic hands wouldn't like it much...but if I WERE to go back to a typewriter, that Hermes or one very like it would be my choice! Congratulations!
Posted by: Meredith | February 03, 2009 at 02:28 PM
Sigh...it's beautiful. Truly beautiful.
Am now lusting after a typewriter. Again.
Posted by: Heather | March 01, 2009 at 06:10 PM
ps...let me know when you're starting to think about selling!
Posted by: Heather | March 01, 2009 at 06:20 PM