Spare a kind thought for me as a Grumpy Old Man I actually remember trying to write a screenplay, layout and all, with a manual typewriter!!!! Anybody else got any horror stories of trying to write a professional looking work on an old Olivetti????
Screenwriting : Writing a Screenplay on a Typewriter by Aaron Lumley
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I wish I had a typewriter! I vaguely remember that we had one when I was a kid but of course it’s long gone D:
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I'd be so screwed with my dyslexia. I like the idea of being able to send my script to a typewriter and have it clatter it out rather than a normal printer.
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I used to use an electronic typewriter back in the day. Before that I even have scripts that I wrote on paper with a pen.
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Tom Hanks uses a typewriter to screenwrite. He has a closet packed with old models.
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I wrote my first "book" (it was like, 8 small pages) on my mom's electric typewriter when I was in the 7th grade. It was about a girl (me!) and a French exchange student falling in love. (The proclivity for rom-coms runs DEEP, y'all.) :D
I actually have my grandpa's old Royal sitting on my shelf. It has a new ribbon, so it works, but I make WAY too many errors when I'm typing to ever use it.
I LOVE the sound it makes, though.
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Yes , I used to do all my writing ( novels and short stories too) on a Mac Classic 13" B& W word processor. There was no internet at that time, either.
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I wrote my early audio drama scripts on a typewriter. I went through more bottles of white-out than I did ribbon.
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Jerry, LOL. I can relate. Do they even make white out anymore?
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Been there, done that. I took a blank piece of paper and laid it on top of a movie script - North By Northwest - which i purchased from Script City. I used a ruler and drew vertical lines on the blank paper to let me know where the margins were. I made photocopies of the margin-lined paper. When I would type a script, I would have the blank page on top, and the margin-lined paper under it so I could see the margins. Presto! A formatted page.
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I wouldn't dare, too many vibes from The Shining.
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I wrote an AVP or Audio visual Script in an electric typewriter in 1991 . I used up a lot of white out paper for corrections . it was a crazy moment but worth it when KLM Airlines Launched “Floriade”in 1992. I remember using a Royal typewriter.
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Mum had an Imperial typewriter. I loved the clanking of the keys & later in life bought one from a vintage fair & occasionally play it. The smell of the ink ribbon & foul Tippex fumes were a constant in my early years. Before that she had a kiln that baked pottery & I only started inviting friends round when the typewriter was the norm.
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I can't even imagine the patience that must have required! My hat is off to you for wrestling with that Olivetti and making it work.