Poetry Revision: Does the Choice of Typeface Inspire Different Kinds of Writing?
I worked on a poem earlier tonight. I wasn’t at all happy with it; but, in keeping with the honest purpose of my blog–exposing the imperfections of the writing process–I posted it anyway. I returned to it later, making revisions with a pencil. I then retyped it with my chocolate Erika 5, which has an…
“Procatination” (Warning: Cat Photo)
The name of my SG1: Mr. Rumpus. The name of the other rumps: Murphy and Molly.
Some Publicity for Cold Hard Type.
Randee Dawn, entertainment reporter for publications like Today.com, NBCNews.com, Variety, LA Times, and Emmy Magazine, interviews fantasy novelist Frederic Durbin about the new books, Paradigm Shifts: Typewritten Tales of Digital Collapse and Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds. Interview with Frederic Durbin @randeedawn
Some brief thoughts on Cold Hard Type, Volumes I and II.
Well, now the two books, Paradigms Shifts: Typewritten Tales of the Digital Collapse and Escapements: Typewritten Tales from the Post-Digital World, have been released into the world. The initial call for submissions for the project, then conceived as one book, was November 7th of 2018. It took only seven months for vision to become a…
Paradigm Shifts: Typewritten Tales of Digital Collapse, the first book of a two-volume work, has been published.
As Richard Polt announced today, Paradigm Shifts: Typewritten Tales of Digital Collapse came out this week. It’s a tremendous success, but I would like to qualify what I mean by that. How we define success is at the heart of the issue. The book, along with its sibling volume, Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds (coming…
The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction 