Freed from online distractions, young writers are embracing the clacking of keys.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.When Kimberley Hui sits down to write, the first words she produces are “Hello, Iris”. Iris is her Olympia Traveller Deluxe typewriter, made in Yugoslavia in 1970. Iris makes the writing process really smooth, she says.
But other writers got hooked. Typewriters.com reveals that quite a few famous authors who began their careers with typewriters resisted the lure of computers. Cormac McCarthy wrote for 50 years on an Olivetti Lettera 32 he bought at a pawnshop in 1963. He never serviced it, just blew out the dust. Danielle Steel wrote 190 books on a 1946 Olympia called Ollie. She refused to give up Ollie because she was “very low-tech, I do everything wrong on a computer”.
She grew up with her mother’s electric typewriter and always wanted one of her own, but what really inspired her were theseries of fantasy novels by Rebecca Ross, where two young journalists in a world where the gods are at war go on adventures with magic typewriters.The best-known typewriter nerd is Tom Hanks, who is both a user and a keen collector. There’s a video where he shows you how to change a typewriter ribbon. He calls them “brilliant combinations of art, engineering and purpose”.
Of course, there comes a moment when the writer wants to send an article, an essay or a novel to a publisher who will only accept electronic submissions. So then the work must be copied or typed on a laptop. But that’s fine, Hui says. It’s just another stage in the editing process.
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