> Using a real typewriter has a big effect on the writing process vs a word processor. You can't edit as you go, so you do the whole thing, mark up your edits on the paper, then type the whole thing with the edits in place. In theory you could work that way on a computer, but it isn't encouraged, while a typewriter forces it. A typewriter also forces you to think about word wrap and hyphenation when you get to the end of a line.
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> Also, there's the "one-off" aspect, as with a Polaroid instant camera. If you type something up and hand the paper to someone, that's the one copy outside your mind that you've given them. Making another copy requires that either you type it again (which may introduce subtle differences) or that they duplicate it. It gives mor> control to the recipient of the artefact.
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> Typewriter emulator doesn't provide these aspects.
Yeah, there's no going back....outside of technology-reducing cataclysm.
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