…and realized Milwaukee is not very far away! So I woke up at 5am this morning, rented a car, and drove up there.
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This is me writing part of the chapter about the birthplace of the typewriter AT THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS BORN, exactly 150 years later!pic.twitter.com/MpX4gc28T0
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It was kind of incredible to bring a 2017 QWERTY keyboard to where the original was being made, a century-and-a-half ago.pic.twitter.com/c0ZW3n9Fxz
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(The building no longer exists, so I sat on the ground. After a weekend of miserable weather, the sun came out literally minutes later.)pic.twitter.com/jw6jvIZ4lu
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There’s only a (crooked) plaque nearby.pic.twitter.com/AEVVkKqi3q
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I am exhausted right now, but this was a perfect little moment.
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Something kind of nice just happened. I needed to re-read a few chapters I wrote all the way back in May…
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…to make sure they will connect with what I’m writing next. And I was surprised how much fun I had reading them.
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The distance of time made it feel like reading someone else. And it was fun. And I actually learned new things. (Well, re-learned.)
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This is a big thing for me too. My uni exam strategy was "cram, test, forget", and I unwittingly turned that into "research, write, forget".
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But if we write it down and publish, it’s no longer really forgotten, right?
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True - but I feel slightly cheated to have lost so much of it from my working set, so to speak.
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