The one I show here is a vintage one, but I want a new one - yes - Royal actually still makes one model of a manual typewriter.
My husband says, "why would you want something like that?" And it's true that anything I write on it would have to be taken to the computer and transcribed.
But I'm intrigued with the notion of "slow writing." Not producing things as fast as you can, but taking time to think about them. I already write a lot by hand - I just think it would be fun to go back to my roots when I first started writing seriously and manuals were the standard issue (yes, I'm that old - although I did have a little portable electric typewriter I took away to college.)
I also collect old typewriters, none of which would be in working order without some reconditioning. Why not just start with a brand new one? It even comes with a case. And I could pretend I was one of the writers I so admire from the past who packed up their typewriter and went off to war, or off to California, or off to a remote cabin somewhere and that little black typewriter in a case was the portal to magical things!
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