- Mar 2025
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www.lascrucesbulletin.com www.lascrucesbulletin.com
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Local writers host ‘typewriter revivals’ by [[Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin]]
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- Feb 2025
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“The free-writing principle is the principle of juice, of letting go, of garbage, of finding diamonds among the garbage: all the metaphors you can make about free writing,” he told Writing on the Edge.
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“The free-writing principle is the principle of juice, of letting go, of garbage, of finding diamonds among the garbage,” he said.Credit...
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- Oct 2024
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Step Back In Time At The Mesa Typewriter Exchange by [[Phil Latzman]]
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- Sep 2024
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raconteurpress.substack.com raconteurpress.substack.com
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Typewriters? In 2024? Are You Nuts? by Jesse M. Slater for [[Raconteur Press]]
A short, but relatively solid typewriter 101 story for someone looking for a distraction-free writing machine. Certainly not completist, but enough to get your toes wet.
Slater uses his typewriter for a first draft, then edits the second draft as he re-types it into his computer to have a digital copy for further editing and distribution.
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- Jun 2024
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The benefits of using a typewriter to write novels and poetry. by [[Classic Typewriter]]
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astrohaus.com astrohaus.com
- May 2022
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wordpress.com wordpress.com
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"I'd want to learn a lot from Professor Zimmerman so that I may obtain as much information as possible and use it in reality. It's not about the work."
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- The backdrop of this annotation is that it was a late-semester free writing for an essay brainstorm. In this piece of writing, I mentioned how I didn't know what to expect going into the project and wanted to learn as much as possible for my own betterment.
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- Dec 2021
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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“focus mode,”
The idea of a "focus mode" or "distraction free mode" is exactly the wrong framing for writing. You don't want to focus on the nothing and emptiness of a page or a screen. You want to start by focusing on an idea and preferably many ideas. Do this first and then proceed from there.
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I was suddenly deluged with ads for “the world’s thinnest tablet,” which promised not only to replace pen and paper but to help you “Get Your Brain Back.” The company’s Lovecraftian promotional ad, which has racked up nearly three million views, begins with a hissing demon-child clinging to her iPad and proceeds through an animated hellscape complete with attention-sucking brain tubes and notifications circling like sharks. The narrator quavers an ominous warning: “We have to modify technology, or else it will modify us.”
Given the diversions of modern digital life, perhaps the best way to do one's writing is to do it at the moment of reading the actual references. Often while reading, one isn't as apt to have their attention diverted by the vagaries of life, instead they are focused on the thing at hand. It is while one has this focused attention that they should let their note taking practice while reading take over.
Even if you are distracted, you can at least maintain focus on a single line of text and your thoughts related to it and write them down in either a summary sentence or with a few related ideas which are sparked by the initial idea.
(This note is such an example.)
Then one can start and complete a small idea at a time and then letting them build over time and space, then recollect them to create a piece which then doesn't need to be written and painfully created, but which may only need an outline structure and some final polish and editing.
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