- Word count for the arithmetically-challenged Luddite.
- Daily breakdown of the story, so I can stay on track this year.
- Gomez sporting new rubber bushings, now his return lever doesn't drag.
- Rollabind to keep the draft pages together. Blank pages in the back for hand-writing.
- Clipboard/document case to contain the manuscript, notes, pens, caffeine gum, and angst.
- Home-made felt typing pad for quiet late-night typing.
NaNoWriMo: the home front
The setup for NaNoWriMo at home, if I need to be portable. Long exposure lit by sweeping an LED flashlight over the scene.
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tomandmarsbell, littleflowerpetals, David Masters, technovore, and 21 other people added this photo to their favorites.
studentofrhythm (56 months ago | reply)
Interesting lighting and nice composition! I'm curious: did you type the card in front just for the shot?
mpclemens (56 months ago | reply)
Heh. Nope, the story is going to open with and feature a large typewriter in a cave, although I could have put a less typo-laden card up front. Gahh.
littleflowerpetals (56 months ago | reply)
Gomez, being from the same general Olympia generation as Sebastian, is a very handsome fella. I might be slightly biased, of course.
I like those red Rollabind discs! Are those one inch ones? Or the 3/4" ?
I think I'm going to go whole-hog on the Circa/Rollabind thing in the near future. It just works, particularly for those of us who like every ink and paper method we can get our hands on.... And it looks like there are good inexpensive sources for the discs on eBay. I'd probably find some DIY method for covers, though. Boughten covers all seem to be awful pricey.
mpclemens (56 months ago | reply)
Bias is totally understandable. I love the chrome detailing on these machines, very mid-century bling.
Those are the 3/4" Rollabind discs. The 1" were just a little too tall to fit inside the clipboard/document holder thing. This should hold about half the number of pages I'm estimating that I'll be typing this year. I've got plenty of discs in reserve to make a second book as required.
DIY Sara (55 months ago | reply)
love this shot! i'm also doing NaNoWriMo this year... 'cept I'm braving it for the first time with a notebook... I haven't found a beautiful typewriter like this to inspire me yet :) much luck and may the words flow freely :D
mpclemens (55 months ago | reply)
Thanks Sara. I find typewriters too often... it comes from looking and once you find one, more seem to follow. Kind of like cats, except typewriters are automatically box-trained on arrival.
Good luck with the hand-writing!
AliAgogO (55 months ago | reply)
those rollabind discs are very art deco, aren*t they?... a nice touch of color for the desk.
ok, that asterisk was a typo, but I'm leaving it. The apostrophe is over the 8 on my machine, not the laptop!! Now if I can learn to stop Ctrl+S every time I take a breather, I'd have less capital S's on the page.
mpclemens (55 months ago | reply)
I can*t tell you how many times I*ve forgotten what machine I*m typing on, with the punctuation all different and having to remember that one is really l and not 2 and that you can't leave the shift-lock on and type phone numbers because then you get %%%_@$$&
AliAgogO (55 months ago | reply)
haha, darn that non-intuitive shift lock!
and I love that your fake number starts with 555...
lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly (46 months ago | reply)
sweet set up!
TV Mole (41 months ago | reply)
Hi
I love this - I hope you don't mind my using it on TV Mole/a> with credit and link back to this page.
Many thanks for sharing under CC!
TheWritersExpt (11 months ago | reply)
Hi mpclemens!
I thought this was a great picture so I used it in one of my blog posts via Creative Commons. It's located here: thewritersexperiment.blogspot.com/2012/06/cal l-and-5000-w...
Credit is given in the caption and links back to this page so other people can enjoy your work.
Thanks!
Sarah @ The Writer's Experiment
mpclemens (11 months ago | reply)
Hi Sarah -- thanks for letting me know and for the link back. And good luck on the job search!