A vintage typewriter

This critique and acrostic poem will show readers why I chose this image for most of my writing. Old-fashioned typing mode for the sound it made clickity-clack or something like that. Learning to type material for others to read one page on paper at a time. Deleting by erasing words and phrases with correcting tape. Taking a person back to an easier time when writing was work at a somewhat slower pace. Yearning to get typed and published on paper. Praying the manuscript would not get lost in transit. Expecting news about your work and getting a letter on paper. Writing to share ideas again, one page at a time. Reading a printed page of our work.

indicating that a little bell will sound to let you know when a phrase or page is finished.

slowing down the timing.

editing each sheet separately.

One page at a time, reading and editing.

Whether it's a single page or a novel of some sort, an ancient typewriter allows a writer to appreciate what they have written on paper.