This is an interesting program that my friend forwarded to me via twitter.

The big difference between computer typing and typewriting is that there’s no deletion on the typewriter.  You could scratch off/white out some letters, but any wide-scale revisions had to be completely re-done.

Writing on a manual [typewriter] makes you slower in a good way, I think. You don’t revise as much, you just think more, because you know you’re going to have to retype the entire fucking thing. Which is a big stop on just slapping anything down and playing with it.
- Will Self

It’s an interesting exercise, because you have to be really careful about the words you’re putting onto the paper, grammar, style, etc. I think practicing with this software is good for people (like myself) who have forgotten how to write carefully. Probably good practice for those timed in-class writing assignments.

The only downside is the program itself… it runs in Java and is a little annoying to use. Still worth fiddling with now and then.

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