I also have yet to get started. On the plus side, I was actually finishing up an actual BOOK that's coming out in December - essays, not fiction - both my publisher and I clearly like a deadline! On the minus side, I thought I could segue from one to the other and instead, after a crazy week getting everything sorted for print, I've collapsed with some sort of flu-like thing. We stayed with friends at the weekend (& I was madly editing and proofing around the edges), and I think I got it from their baby.

But even if I start in a day or two, that's half a nanowrimo more than I could've done.

I'm doing NaNoWriMo as well! Sorry I'm late to the party, everybody...

I've participated in NaNos before, but never with a typewriter. Between last year and this year is when I got in to typewriters, and now I'm a whole-hearted member of the brigade. My username on NaNo is John Franey. Creative. I know. But I need every ounce of creativity for the story! Which happens to be modern fantasy, a sequel I'm trying to form out of a more traditional fantasy I wrote over the last two years.

I've been primarily using a 1952 Royal Arrow in double-spaced 8 pitch. It works pretty well, but I desperately need some kind of pad underneath, or I start on one end of the desk and end up on the other!

In regards to OCR software (or lack thereof), any scanned image, PDF or .jpg, you can open with Google Docs, and if it's less than 10 pages, it does an OCR conversion on the spot. Free to boot.

I've changed typers again, folks. I decided that, since I'm not anywhere near reaching my daily quota of words, I ought to type on a machine that I want to give a workout to. (you should never end a sentence with a preposition, I have learned)   So here is my 1946 Royal KMM, which I purchased at a yard sale this past August. I have oiled it up but it still seems a bit "tight", so I wanted to give it a good workout, and NaNo seems like a good opportunity.


   Therefore I am now pounding the keys on this lovely old pica sized newsroom typer which I call the "Headbanger" since it puts up so much vibration in my typing table when I use it. But it is certainly a fast typer! And I love the speed bursts I can put on it without jamming the typebars.
   Cheers to all at the halfway point...

malole wrote:

Hello newcomers to nanoland, the more the merrier! No one writes a good novel in november, so go for it with the planning, Repartee.
Jfraney, I'm intrigued by your 8 pitch Royal Arrow, I don't think I've seen or heard of an 8 pitch typeface before. I have one with a 6 pitch, a Smith Corona Classic 12, and I love it, but I'm not using it for nano.

 

Oops I think 10 is what I meant It's definitely the standard pica, nothing out of the ordinary.

I haven't made much progress, but a little is better than not to have started at all.  It's good to get a new story going.