It cracked me up that your comment had to be approved because you typed “ma” instead of your entire name. I’ll be glad to call you ma from here on out if you’re feeling maternal. But I think you should know, my mother baked biscuits for me, helped me when I had financial woes, and loaned me her car from time to time….
Well, ma, it’s like this, I don’t think anyone will win anything because @createstuff apparently isn’t picking up anything from twitter. I’ve only found 5 days for 2013 on Pinterest and only two of my submissions were picked up.
Yeah, I don’t know why they haven’t been pinning the submissions on a daily basis. I miss seeing other people’s creativity. I didn’t know they’d gotten past Day 4.
I haven’t seen any of Marika’s projects posted, either. Weird. Maybe it’s just too labor intensive for them? Or maybe not enough people are participating, so they’ve written the whole thing off? Though they do keep tweeting the daily prompts, so who knows.
OMG, I learned how to type on a Royal in high school, my graduation gift was a used Royal, my first ten years of advertising copy were written on a Royal, the first television commercial I ever wrote (starring Charles Nelson Reilly) was written on a Royal. Then one day the secretary of the company president visited my cubicle and saw me typing away on that old Royal. Two weeks later when she got the latest multi-feature IBM electric I received her old Selectric. Then whenever she got an upgrade, I got her old machine. Finally the company went computerized, and I entered the computer era. Personally, I think I gave more thought, creativity and blood, sweat and tears to what I wrote on the old Royal. Also a lot less typos.
Typos were the devil on those old typewriters, especially on stencils and ditto sheets. Remember the round erasers with the brushes, and erasing holes into the pages?
I loved the old Selectrics that used the typeballs so you could change fonts.
I remember the first word processor I saw–in a law office. Only one of the secretaries had one, so she did the bulk of the documents and everyone else in the firm thought it was magic. At a law firm after that, I had to use a mag card typewriter. I HATED THAT THING with the fire of a million suns.
Everything is so much easier today, although too many people try to get too creative with fonts. I like clean type and professional documents.
har har har ! You are trying to win the moleskine. You and Rob… I am no fool.
It cracked me up that your comment had to be approved because you typed “ma” instead of your entire name. I’ll be glad to call you ma from here on out if you’re feeling maternal. But I think you should know, my mother baked biscuits for me, helped me when I had financial woes, and loaned me her car from time to time….
Well, ma, it’s like this, I don’t think anyone will win anything because @createstuff apparently isn’t picking up anything from twitter. I’ve only found 5 days for 2013 on Pinterest and only two of my submissions were picked up.
Becky should put an asterisk on the two books with a follow up Currently available in Kindle editions.
Thanks. 😉
Yeah, I don’t know why they haven’t been pinning the submissions on a daily basis. I miss seeing other people’s creativity. I didn’t know they’d gotten past Day 4.
I haven’t seen any of Marika’s projects posted, either. Weird. Maybe it’s just too labor intensive for them? Or maybe not enough people are participating, so they’ve written the whole thing off? Though they do keep tweeting the daily prompts, so who knows.
Katnip finds her muse! Er, muses, er, mices? Does that typewriter have a [Backspace] or [Delete]?
Oh, how we used to have to rough it with our typewriters. When they called them rough drafts then, they really meant it.
Youngsters who have grown up with word processors don’t know they’re born!
Perhaps children’s fiction could be a new direction for you?
I doubt I’d be any good at it–I’ll leave it to the people who love writing it.
I wonder what the writers of earlier times would think if they could see how easy it is to record and and revise our words now.
OMG, I learned how to type on a Royal in high school, my graduation gift was a used Royal, my first ten years of advertising copy were written on a Royal, the first television commercial I ever wrote (starring Charles Nelson Reilly) was written on a Royal. Then one day the secretary of the company president visited my cubicle and saw me typing away on that old Royal. Two weeks later when she got the latest multi-feature IBM electric I received her old Selectric. Then whenever she got an upgrade, I got her old machine. Finally the company went computerized, and I entered the computer era. Personally, I think I gave more thought, creativity and blood, sweat and tears to what I wrote on the old Royal. Also a lot less typos.
Typos were the devil on those old typewriters, especially on stencils and ditto sheets. Remember the round erasers with the brushes, and erasing holes into the pages?
I loved the old Selectrics that used the typeballs so you could change fonts.
I remember the first word processor I saw–in a law office. Only one of the secretaries had one, so she did the bulk of the documents and everyone else in the firm thought it was magic. At a law firm after that, I had to use a mag card typewriter. I HATED THAT THING with the fire of a million suns.
Everything is so much easier today, although too many people try to get too creative with fonts. I like clean type and professional documents.