Writer's Workshop Prompts of March 7, 2024

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My first time joining in to John Holton's (The Sound of One Hand Typing) Writer's Workshop.   John is one of the team of the  Blogging from A to Z Challenge in April. Check it out, it's almost time! 

Badge by Patty, http://anothercookieplease.com

Here are the prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop:

  1. Write a post based on the word manual.

  2. Write a post in exactly 13 sentences.

  3. Tell us about a favorite childhood toy.

  4. What was the most useless class you took? Tell us about it.

  5. Which fictional character (from a book, comic book, TV show, or movie) did you want to be? Why?

  6. When did you learn that Santa Claus/the Easter Bunny/the Tooth Fairy was your parents? How did you figure it out?

I've gone with #1 and #2.  

 
     My son collects manual typewriters.
     They are interesting machines from a former time. Not so former as to make them “before my time!”
     I took typing in high school. We were given one week on electric machines. Such progress that seemed in 1974!
     My son’s are manual though.
     Some are actually pretty. A few are powder blue, another one is green. There’s even a junior size for children. The one with the green keys, above, I found at an estate sale last year to give my son for his birthday.
     I think he needs to slow it with the acquisitions though. He is running out of space to store them.

   ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved




Comments

  1. John HoltonMarch 7, 2024 at 1:11 PM

    I actually got an electric typewriter in 1974 after graduating high school. The thing drove me nuts.

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    1. LisaMarch 7, 2024 at 7:01 PM

      Ha! That's funny how it was 1974 as well! The year of electric typewriters! I graduated the next year.

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