screenwriting on a friggin typewriter ([syndicated profile] blanketsin_feed) wrote2026-01-14 10:08 pm

My days have shifted by 2 hours. Lunch is at 3:15p. Dinner is at 10p, Bedtime is at 1a, shower at 10

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My cats are on a better diet than I am. Sometimes I try to learn them one or two things like don't shit on the rug or don't pee on the floor, but they don't seem to make the connection with the absent feeding time slot. Amazingly enough, my cats know when it's 10pm because that's when they start getting hungry again. I feed them just before bedtime because they are nocturnal animals after all. Normally, I would head off to bed at 11:30p (after watching the news), but since I don't have local TV anymore, I go to YouTube to check if anything important happened (like protesters getting shot in the eye at point blank distance.)
I meant to use a caption in the doodle. Something like "making the streets safer" but I started off with a pencil rendering and went straight to ink. Charles Schultz would've frowned upon adding captions after the illustration, as his technique was to ink all captions first, then add the graphics.
More and more cartoony pages may be forthcoming as I just don't hack out my scriptwriting pages fast enough. And it's easy to grab some of the junk mail I get and doodle on them just before they see the shredder. Whereas, when I compose a full page of script, I have to grab two sheets of paper (a cotton blend and a regular sheet of bond paper), then sandwich a carbon sheet between them. Inserting sheets into typewriter can get technical and much attention is needed for this process. Double checking that the carbon paper is facing the correct direction so as not to transfer my typing onto the back of the original sheet of cotton blend paper.
When I finally find an agent or an editor willing to compensate me for my hard work, I will invest in a fresh spool of ink ribbon (with red ink) so that I can use image map html coding to create manually typewritten hyperlinks. It would be a highlight of the day to achieve this, but for now any red wording in my typecast hard copy scans would be computer generated. I guess I should thank the amateur radio community for successfully moving my ass off the couch in front of the TV. Now my ass can sit on the brand new chair my cats have already clawed up behind my desk. I still watch stuff I use to watch in front of the living room, but now the display monitor is closer to my face, burning up my retinas faster, and I use headphone for audio.
Bose speakers speaker bars for the TV really let me down. Even though my headphones are also Bose products, I anticipate it's only a matter of time before those break too.