< Handwriting just might be the write pace for me

~tffb

Sort of like cheating death - cheating Murphy!

I did an impromptu issue of the zine I maintain sometimes (The Zine Around The Corner) which I called "the lo-fi issue" (issue. 6? 7?) and I did something similar - I had a flash card sized notebook and wrote out large text paragraphs across 10+ pages, photographed each one, and then ordered them on Google Drive, and then downloaded it as a PDF, and then uploaded it to my Ghost blog as one of the issues for "the zine".

Fun, amusing stuff - for sure.

Handwriting can be fun, my palm cramps after a while, though. Not everyone is like that, so more rewarding for some. But, like you, I am a typist first. The spells of wordsmithing together a blog post/journal entry, and being as fast as I can, sort of like HST's "Mescalito" where he tried to document all of his thoughts the first time he took mescaline, and soon realized the thoughts were faster than his hands could keep up on his Corona typewriter.

Which brings to mind the first time using (a banned substance) before going to school in Junior year of high school, not dissimilar to what HST took that day, and attending Homeroom (the ONE class that was mandatory to attend school-wide) and sitting not but several desk distances from the teacher, and trying not to make a scene of myself, and wrote in a 3-subject notebook (feverishly, quickly, sloppily - with total disregard for hand cramps) for probably the ENTIRETY of the 50 minute class. Who knows what I wrote, I just knew that I couldn't be "witnessed" in the state I was in, and was paranoid that I would end up in an insane asylum if they found out what I had taken. Haha.

Fun times, indeed.

I'll read the flashcard journals, if you decide to make then, Inquiry. And look forward to the artwork therein, as well.

Talk later

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Yes!

Prolly not 'til June is underway.

Now I'm wondering if 3x5 is big enough, given how doodles tend to have minds of their own. I'll mess with 8.5x11 as well.