Olivetti Lettera 32

My Prodigiously Convoluted Yet Miraculously Productive Low-Tech Writing Process — Part 1

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I’m writing this blog entry on my latest piece of low-tech equipment, an Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. All told, I now have six typewriters: • The Lettera 32           • A Royal Quiet Deluxe           • An Olympia SM9 Deluxe           • An … Read more

Being a Novelist Isn’t a Job, It’s a Lifestyle

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Back in December, after having completed the first draft of a 550,000-word, 1,600-page novel, I took a nearly month-long vacation (my first in years). For one week of the vacation, my wife and I explored Quebec, stayed at at a ski resort, and went cross-country skiing, swimming and hot-tubbing every day. One afternoon in the … Read more