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Steve is in the office...
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I've always acknowledged it (you should've seen her at the GB premiere.
)...yer a tall somethin'......color me not a'tall surprised....
No.1126 days to go before I'd even consider it.
The "mobile" office on the set of Under the Dome
First, I must say the guy who played the sexy hero, the buff military babe, on the Dome, is totes hawt. Yum. My fav sexy SK movie actor so far.
About the above picture:
Dang. **whistles** SK is sooo cool. This picture makes me feel better about being a nerd, cooler.
That looks just like my typewriter! It's ancient, my mom got it in 1958 when she was 12 and gave it to me when I was a little girl and declared I would be a writer. Lol. I try to get it maintained, and it's hard there are not that many typewriter people anymore. I went and bought an electric one at an Office supply store in 2005 and the whole staff snickered loudly and guffawed when I bought it. I pointedly and quite angrily demanded to know what was so darn funny, and they talked to me like I'm totally dumb. " Don't you know about computers, laptops, word processors?! " (Duh, as if!) I said " Of course I have a computer, " but I explained that typewriters are way cooler, way thorough, and way more satisfying. Then I said " I'm a real writer, real writers use typewriters..." They just didn't even grasp that. I told them that they didn't get paid to laugh at my purchases or me, and that they should suck it up and sell me my dang typewriter without talking smack. They hushed it up.
I am occasionally embarrassed by my pile of non working typewriters but I won't get rid of them, I treasure the sound I know they make and how they make my fingers feel. Happy! I like what it does when it gets to the end of the line and starts over again. I like staring at the keys as they hit the paper and print the letters. I like to watch the words pile up on the page like from my own by hand printing press. I type extra hard on my keyboard sometimes but it's not the same.
Stephen King is a cool true die hard dude and I respect that. Typewriter on the movie set.
**swoons**
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
You reminded me - I have an electric typewriter in the basement which my (then) husband bought for me as I had remustered from Supply Tech to Admin Clerk - I wonder if I could even get ribbons for it anymore?
Five years ago, I got an electric at Office Max or Office Depot, they are both owned by the same company now...Maybe there. Otherwise, there are typewriter specialists here and there, with small old fashion ed shops to meet people's needs. There is one here in the woods of Hopkins MN, I was referred there after calling my typewriter company's phone number. if your typewriter co is still in existence call them, and try yellow pages as well. There are these dank old dudes who feel the same as us and hoard mega typewriter stuff for people like us.
I must say i happily throw away my typewriter when i got my first computer. I wrote my paper in archaeology on a typewriter and it would have been so much easier if i had a wordprogram of some sort where i could shuffle sentences, sources and other things back and forth to see where it made the most impact. I grow up with typewriters but it is better this way. Far easier to erase when you somehow got the spelling wrong or something.
Conversely, growing up using an old typewriter, I had to get good at getting it all good and organized and copy and pasted in my head, and thought out before typed down, then when I was good at that, I could do that faster and faster, thus using a typewriter I feel helped me think like a good writer, you know, organizing ideas all up in my head.
What's really boss too is when you type out a bunch of pages and they get that slightly puffy look from all the ink punches. A stack of typed pages, has a considerably more full look than a stack of printed out computer pages. It's all in the punches.
And when you type out a bunch of stuff and doodle edits on it with pen ink, it's extra legit when you walk around and your place is a book to read, pages everywhere. When I type in my computer, it's all just, in there, unless I print it out specifically. Meh. I like the bonuses of my computer but I feel like a slave to Microsoft Word sometimes.
The man has got me down.
When i write poetry i always do that with a pen, never a computer or a typewriter, Because of all the changes that must into it before it is completed, you write a word and then draw a line across it and write another. But you're right in that the computer can fool you sometimes. I was 100% sure i had an article about Mesopotamia in it but it wasn't there. It lies around somewhere on paper and i have no idea where. When i was writing a story i usually only had the beginning and let the story decide the ending. So when i write the story i just go with the flow. When i read it again some is good and some is terrible but thats what rewrites for. So when i finished with a story i write it again and now it usually turns out longer because i can see the end and decide what gaps needs to be filled and where.
I wonder if Stephen King uses a typewriter or a computer in his home office, what does his manuscript get delivered as?
I think he is a computer man nowadays. The typewriter is more like the movable office to places like movierecordings and such.
I suddenly have an urge to break out my old slide rule, 8-track tapes, and look for my Blockbuster membership card.
Ms. Mod's shorthand........
I use to be a tea drinker, but then discovered coffee keeps me awake. I don't mind a nice cup of tea though when I go certain places or on a cold afternoon or night Coffee is better in the morning and tea is good in the afternoon.
My question is "Where does he get his ideas when he's in his office?"
Just kidding, ha! I think he answered that one before. hee-hee. 
My question is "Where does he get his ideas when he's in his office?"
Just kidding, ha! I think he answered that one before. hee-hee.
...a computer...MacBook maybe?....don't know about delivery...
Delivery as in when it is to be given to the publishing company, is it on computer or typewriter?
I guess SK probably doesn't write his whole books with old typewriters anymore.
...Marsha would know this for certain...last I heard or read, he still printed out manuscript pages-but when all is final?...don't know if he e-mails or hard-copies...I think the days of a literal "trunk novel" have passed though...
Seems like a lifetime ago that that was taken.
And you are much younger and prettier looking now I think.
Ever since she bought that wood chipper the stress and worry lines have disappeared from her face.....
Seriously, Marsha, you do look better now than in that pic.
...woodchipper therapy...the Oil of Olay of discriminating Moderators everywhere...Ever since she bought that wood chipper the stress and worry lines have disappeared from her face.....
Seriously, Marsha, you do look better now than in that pic.
