My apologies for missing last month; I was so busy the weekend before post day that by the time I remembered the IWSG, it was too late to write anything. I guess I should resolve to do better in 2026!
Anyway, welcome to my December 2025 blog post for the Insecure Writer's Support Group. You can learn more about them on their website and Facebook page.
Our hosts this month are Tara Tyler, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Pat Garcia, Liza, and Natalie Aguirre.
Here's our question for the month: As a writer, what was one of the coolest/best gifts you ever received?
Well, the answer will definitely show my age, but what came to mind was a typewriter. And yes, this was before personal home computers became as ubiquitous as they are today. I think I was in eighth grade at the time, so I mostly used it for schoolwork like reports, but I remember also typing clean copies of my poetry on it. (I think at the time I would write my poetry by hand first.) By the time I attended college, my parents were able to give me a computer with a built-in thermal printer that they found on the Home Shopping Network. It was a pain finding the right printer paper and toner for it, and the memory/processor could only handle short papers, around five pages. Nevertheless, it was a step forward. Writing/publishing is so much easier with the technology we have today!
What are your favorite writer gifts to give or receive? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
7 comments:
Awesome gift!
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Kids today would look at a typewriter and wonder where the ports were...
No worries about missing a month. Life can be messy sometimes.
I remember typewriters too. As a lawyer, I used to have to write out my letters and pleadings and have a secretary type them. I'm glad for computers.
You know, it took AGES to convert my grandmother from her typewriter to a computer. (She was a secretary.) I think there was something very soothing about the feedback of clicking keys and the rhythm of movment that is so beautiful about typewriting. Alas, it was never part of my writing experience. (My family was HUGE into technology.)
WIshing you a lovely Christmas, Sandra!
We had a really old typewriter when I was a kid. I remember getting excited when White Out came out.
Okay, I feel old, Sandra. We didn't have computers when I went to university, and I used a slide rule in my 1st year chemistry course. 😂. I'm very happy to have today's technology. I hope you have a great Christmas and a happy 2026!
This will show my age too (unless you take vintage collecting into consideration, but that's a story for another day), but i remember my first typewriter from when I was in college. It was handed down from my dad. Even though a key here and there stuck and so I had to pull its print spindle, I found it useful for the time. Then I was given a brand new word processor one Christmas that did only that: process words, then maybe about five years later a full PC that did everything (or almost everything).
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