I'm a programer and bought typewriter. Novel starts writing by itself

[sasha_fishter]

I've never been a writer as a novelist. I wrote many blog posts, but never something meaningful. Recently I've started to looking at typewriters and fell in love in Smith Corona, so I bought Silent from 1946. Immediately after I started writing, novel started writing itself. I found that weird feeling, that I'm not a writer but just a channel or medium for that story to go through me on a paper. Anybody had this feeling before?

[purple-leafy]

Thats really cool! I'd love to get into type-writers, there is something great about the fact that you can't undo your mistakes, and have to finish your flow.

And, if it ever breaks - you get the joy of mechanical fixes!

What are you currently writing about?

[sasha_fishter]

Yes, there some kind of magic there. Probably because it's limited, but you can get what you can't on the computer, at least it's the case for me. I have one rule, just type whatever comes to my mind. It will get complex, as story unfolds, but I don't think about it at all, don't analysing, I just write. It's a good feeling though.

It's about character named Theodor Walkings. I don't know where it came from, but he found the note on the floor with some message and that leads to some new clues, new characters, new mystery. For me, I can't wait to start typing to see what comes next, it's more like I'm reading a book, not writing. I have a feeling that I do not create story, I'm just typing it out. Can't describe the feeling, but it feels good. I always been intuition first logic next, so that's probably the case here. Anyhow, I have written 3 pages in a day. It's not the best story ever but It's fun even for me to re read it :)

I don't know yet the time of the story, is it in the future, past or present. I didn't come to that part yet.

[brudgers]

Yes. When the muse makes the booty call, answer the damn phone.

[kylecazar]

That's great!!

My brother is a writer that's been struggling with his own personal projects (a novel he hasn't touched in years). He JUST got a Freewrite for Xmas and was already caught writing again.

I hope it sticks for you both.

[sasha_fishter]

Nice, why he didn't get himself a typewriter? It's totally different experience

[fallinditch]

That's a nice feeling, we need a new word for it.

I experience something similar when using certain vintage cameras. I am particularly fond of Zeiss Ikon folders from the 50s, in their own way they approach engineering perfection within their design philosophy (which is very different from the SLRs that came soon after). For me they do seem to be leading me to produce images that I would not normally consider, that require more effort and planning. Thanks for your post, I will carry on ploughing that furrow!

Good luck with the novel, do you have a title yet?

[sasha_fishter]

Yes, that's similar feeling I guess. No title, just three pages of the story. I wrote some plot on the comment above.