It belonged to my grandfather. He had several, but this was the one he used when travelling. It still works well, although I think it needs a little more ink.
Hildegard’s was an Erika portable. It still has the case. She wrote plays for children, short stories, magazine articles. My uncle Heye said “the little typewriter earned many a garment to us children.”
I remember reading that Flaubert wrote “rentier” on his carte identité when traveling outside of Rouen, reluctant to call himself a writer because he thought he hadn’t yet developed his own style. Very modest by modern style of self-publishing anything and everything.
The thing about writing is that you can't really sit down and say "and now I'll write a good thing" the way you can with most work. Instead you have to just tend your state: read good stuff, take notes, have conversations, and wait nervously for piece of writing to arrive. - Henrik Karlsson
I say go for it. Why not?
So I did. :)
Pretty sure my grandmother had that exact same typewriter. Now my niece has it. It smells like ink.
It belonged to my grandfather. He had several, but this was the one he used when travelling. It still works well, although I think it needs a little more ink.
Hildegard’s was an Erika portable. It still has the case. She wrote plays for children, short stories, magazine articles. My uncle Heye said “the little typewriter earned many a garment to us children.”
Interesting! My case was in very bad condition so I decided to get rid of it. It will probably come to more use this way (I tell myself).
I remember reading that Flaubert wrote “rentier” on his carte identité when traveling outside of Rouen, reluctant to call himself a writer because he thought he hadn’t yet developed his own style. Very modest by modern style of self-publishing anything and everything.
I think we can all learn something from that story. At the same time, one wonders how many geniuses did the same, and were therefore never discovered.
The thing about writing is that you can't really sit down and say "and now I'll write a good thing" the way you can with most work. Instead you have to just tend your state: read good stuff, take notes, have conversations, and wait nervously for piece of writing to arrive. - Henrik Karlsson
Wise words. That’s a kind of relief too: not knowing, and simply working until something suddenly appears.