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
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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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
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
(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
There’s only a (crooked) plaque nearby.pic.twitter.com/AEVVkKqi3q
I am exhausted right now, but this was a perfect little moment.
Something kind of nice just happened. I needed to re-read a few chapters I wrote all the way back in May…
…to make sure they will connect with what I’m writing next. And I was surprised how much fun I had reading them.
The distance of time made it feel like reading someone else. And it was fun. And I actually learned new things. (Well, re-learned.)
Writing has become harder in recent months, but this experience helped a bit to find energy for the last dozen chapters.
If I enjoyed reading those, chances are other people might, too.
Excited about writing the next chapter: a stroll through the Typewriter Row in 1910’s New York, speed typing contests, and a tearful ending.
Interesting challenge to set up a walking tour of a place 110 years back in time. I didn’t know New York’s Broadway had cable cars then!pic.twitter.com/9yEzhCEcx4
PSA I actually have keyboard dreams now, sometimes.
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