I’ve been a screenwriter and television producer working in Hollywood for nearly
twenty years now. In that time I’ve worked on various network and cable shows,
and have sold numerous original TV pilots to Fox, CBS, Paramount TV, etc. and
am currently developing several projects based on true-crime books. Do I write
on them for work? No, I definitely use a MacBook. But aside from writing and
traveling, one of my main passions/hobbies is finding and restoring typewriters of
any vintage -- whether I find them at garage sales (harder now since Covid of
course), resale shops or listed online -- if I have a chance to buy an old machine
and save it from the scrap-heap I do so. My great grandmother, who lived across
the country from me, gave me my first manual typewriter when I was five in order
to write her letters and stay in touch. That simple gift from her not only started
my love of writing and expressing myself through words, but also began my
fascination with these old machines. I’ve had one or two beat-up ones that were
always lying around growing up (and electric ones that I actually used to write on
until I got my first laptop in 1999), but about fifteen years ago I started seriously
collecting and using my old machines to write letters, poems, fill out forms, and
make the neatest grocery lists known to man. Take a peek at these beauties and
post a pic of your own and tell me how who you use them!
Pictured: Craig Gore