I desire/need a typewriter for many reasons.
Watch the video explanation by clicking here
If you have one you want to sell me (for under $30) please e-mail me: sam AT samuelwebster PERIOD com
otherwise, it is to ebay I will go.
More details and explanations to come soon.
First time with a video log.
Another one coming soon about some projects i’ve been working on.
Just thought i’d share an idea with you.
a few years back I freaked out that maybe all my poetry (in .doc files all over this laptop, the last laptop, and my desktop computer) might be wiped and I would have none of my work. You just can’t trust digital files. That said, my house could burn down and paper wouldn’t hold up too well either, but one is definitely more likely than the other.
So at the time, cafepress.com just started printing books. These days, there is lulu.com as well. Both work well. So i created a pdf file with all of my poetry up until then (2005) and made a book, paid for it myself, and had it delivered. Now i have a paperback hard copy of every poem i wrote over those years. Very cool. Additionally, you get to see how your work would be set out in print, which is a very useful exercise.
Anyway, I decided again this year that I should re-archive stuff and today cafepress delivered (after only a week and a half - not bad for international orders) the book. The design is minimalist on purpose. It has a picture of me so in 25 years I can remember what i looked like when i made this specific book.
(click the image for the larger version)
very very pleased. I definitely recommend this as a form of backing up and archiving your work.
Tip:
Set the selling price to something ridiculous like $500, because you don’t want passersby on cafepress picking up your complete works, before you’ve had a chance to publish them the first time. cafepress will automatically deduct the mark-up because they give you your own products at cost price. But it will prevent other people from buying them.
Don’t leave a poem or a story out because it’s half finished. This is not for the publisher to see. And that half a sentence might come in handy somewhere.
Welcome to Breakfast Euphemisms.
So i’ve decided to get back on the blog bandwagon and re-use the ‘writer’s block’ pun again. Some of you will know I had another blog which was similar and of the same title but it is no more. You may consider this a continuation or a reiteration of the last.
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