"When I am dead / I hope it may be said / 'His sins were scarlet, / But his books were read.'"
- Hilaire Belloc
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Author Joseph Finder talks about what he does to keep distraction at bay. He's got a new book coming too, so the YouTube page has a soft sell on that, but it's not in this video.
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2. Deborah
- 05/18/2011 4:47 pm EDT
I OWNED an IBM Selectric II. Husband bought it for me used for $100 from Mustang Jerry Heasley, the automotive journalist. I secretly hoped some of Jerry's writing luster would rub off on me. Alas, no. But I kept the typewriter long after we transitioned to computers, then gave it to my mother. After she died I wanted to keep it, but sensible beat out sentiment and I gave it to the town library for the genealogy corner.
It hummed rather loudly though, which I found distracting. If I needed to think for awhile, or read what I'd written out loud, I had to turn it off. Still, it kicked started my writing.
3. Phil
- 05/18/2011 6:14 pm EDT
Well, I know I used some kind of red IBM electric typewriter when I was a kid. I don't remember if it was a Selectric. I typed Christmas lists on it among other things. It hummed a good bit. My high school word processor was similar to an electric typewriter, but it had some memory so I could type whole documents before printing. Was it a Panasonic? I don't remember.
4. Greybeard
- 05/19/2011 11:47 am EDT
My High School typing class was equipped with Selectrics. Wonderful machines. At home we had a Sears Communicator I, which I believe was a relabeled Smith Corona. It was nice for the quick change ribbon cartridges so I could pop out the black ribbon with a click of a button and put in a whiteout overwrite ribbon. I made a lot of use of that correction ribbon. Somehow, in the dissembling of my parent's flotsam and jetsam I acquired that typewriter. It's still down in my basement somewhere.
9. Jerry Heasley
- 05/23/2011 12:22 am EDT
Who bought the IBM typewriter from me for $100? I can't remember. I bought the machine from a traveling salesman on my last or next to the last day pumping gasoline at Hale's Deep Rock. I worked there while I wrote my first two books. My latest book comes out next month- "Jerry Heasley's Rare Finds."
Jerry Heasley
10. Deborah
- 05/23/2011 9:36 am EDT
Hi Jerry. It's Deborah Hendrick, formerly of Pampa(1979-1994). Husband Larry bought your typewriter for me in 1983 or '84. I think you sold the typewriter because you'd bought a computer.
Glove Box Stories is my website, but I haven't put up any new stories in a long time. Some of my earliest ideas were outlined on that typewriter. It's a funny old world, huh.
Congratulations on your new book.
(Hi Lars, hi Phil---)
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I wanted an IBM Selectric so bad, back in the day. Now I know where I could get one for the taking away, but it would just be more useless junk in my home.