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Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Dear Watson posted:

This thread has inspired me what typewriter should I look for on craigslist

IBM Selectric

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Lord Decimus Barnacle
Jun 25, 2005


Hell Gem
drat that'd a nice typewriter my novel will kick rear end

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
It was good enough for hunter thompson

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
My biggeest embarassment is when I bought TWO of these things a couple years ago



The idea is they would allow me to WRITE ON THE GO!

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

8 track betamax posted:

My biggeest embarassment is when I bought TWO of these things a couple years ago



The idea is they would allow me to WRITE ON THE GO!

Did you buy them at the same time or something?

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

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I have a lot of ideas that are likely half baked and the most recent is a NaNoWriMo effort that I have accrued thousands of words on only to decide nothing actually loving happens (through reading a lot of real books in the mean time).

So gently caress knows, it's a dream but I'm a lazy man, why reach for the stars when you can reach for the booze? :smith:

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

STAR wars my heart isn't ready for your implied permission and then gassing of my thread again

MONKEY TRASH!
Jan 8, 2006

Bacon Terrorist posted:

I have a lot of ideas that are likely half baked and the most recent is a NaNoWriMo effort that I have accrued thousands of words on only to decide nothing actually loving happens (through reading a lot of real books in the mean time).

So gently caress knows, it's a dream but I'm a lazy man, why reach for the stars when you can reach for the booze? :smith:

Write short stories! Everyone always has this urge to write novels but it'd be like if the first horse you ever rode was a half mile long

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Feb 11, 2007

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Mar 23, 2010
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MONKEY TRASH! posted:

Write short stories! Everyone always has this urge to write novels but it'd be like if the first horse you ever rode was a half mile long

That's a really long rear end horse. I'd like to read one of your short stories. I bet they are whimsical.

cosmicjim fucked around with this message at 12:50 on May 10, 2016

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FormerPoster
Aug 5, 2004

Hair Elf

MONKEY TRASH! posted:

Write short stories! Everyone always has this urge to write novels but it'd be like if the first horse you ever rode was a half mile long

You know, I've gotten this advice multiple times in my life and all it ever did was deter me from writing anything. The way I finally got started writing was to just ignore this and write the novel I wanted to write. That novel sucked, so I wrote another one that sucked less, and now I'm writing one that ideally sucks even less than that. Maybe the books I write will suck forever, but at least I'll be writing what I want to write. If I was still listening to people who told me to write short stories, I'd never have written anything at all.

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