This entry was typed on the 196? Sears Forecast 12.
The 196X Sears Forecast 12 photos:
The 1926 Royal 10 photos:
This entry was typed on the 196? Sears Forecast 12.
The 196X Sears Forecast 12 photos:
The 1926 Royal 10 photos:
Before I get into this assignment, I want to point out that Mr. Van Cleave has a YouTube channel in which he goes over all the submissions by presenting a slideshow of them (which allows you to read each one), then discusses each of them individually.
The sixth Typing Assignment from Joe Van Cleave’s blog is the following:
We all have someone in our lives who represents a story waiting to be told. That story could be uplifting, or not. But that’s the way true-to-life stories are; not all fairy tales and happily-ever-after and Prince (or Princess) Charming. But a story, waiting to be told, as a typed, one-page composition. It’s your story, to share with others.
For this assignment, I took my healed wrist to the 1951 Royal Quiet De Luxe, and tried to fit a single page in about Erma Henderson. Though there is a lot to her story, and a lot of it has been shared, I chose to revisit her for this assignment because August 20, 2017 would have been her 100th birthday.
One of the take-aways from this assignment is that I need to allow myself a little more time to either hand-write or rough draft it on the typewriter and re-type. One of the aesthetics of using a typewriter is the human error component of mistypes, misspellings, and rawness of thought. If I’m going to continue this and publish them here, I need to consider providing cleaner copy.
Typing Assignment #1
Typing Assignment #2
Typing Assignment #3
Typing Assignment #4
Typing Assignment #5
Still hampered by the splint, I used my 1961 Smith Corona Coronet Automatic, an electric typewriter, again for Typing Assignment #5 at Joe Van Cleave’s blog.
This assignment “is to work with that worst of all opening lines to a story, “It was a dark and stormy night.”
This line has been panned for decades by critics and cognoscenti alike; but are we afraid? No! Instead, we see it as a challenge. After all, we’re already writing on manual typewriters. Typewriters, I tell ‘ya! So a little more salt in the wound shouldn’t be any trouble.
Start your one-page piece with that classic line, and see where the Muse takes you. Make it fiction; or make it nonfiction, if you have a personal tale, set in a dark, stormy eve, worth telling. Perhaps there’s a family story or legend you’d like to try your hand at. Make it poetry, make it prose, you get to choose.
This is my contribution.
Typing Assignment #1
Typing Assignment #2
Typing Assignment #3
Typing Assignment #4
Typing Assignment #4 from Joe Van Cleave’s Blog was difficult this week. An acute fracture in a bone in my wrist, which occurred at a soccer game on Tuesday, has been making every form of typing a challenge. Furthermore, the assignment itself required some thought and imagination. The past seven days busy with work and soccer, left little time for thought on this project. But with the deadline near, I put this together.
The assignment “is to write about that old pangram: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. You are free to use this phrase as a jumping-off point for wherever the create muse leads. Write from the perspective of the fox, or the dog, or the dog’s owner. Tell us the backstory, or what happens after. Is there animosity between the fox and dog, or are they friends? Why is the dog considered lazy – did he get a false reputation? You get to decide – it’s your story.”
Well, I took this in an entirely different direction. Sort of like how my week went. I used my 1961 Smith Corona Coronet Automatic, an electric typewriter which would be easier for my injured left hand, and, well, all I can say is that a quick brown fox did jump over a lazy dog. The rest I’ll leave for you to decide.
Typing Assignment #1
Typing Assignment #2
Typing Assignment #3
Today I completed Typing Assignment #3 for Joe Van Cleave’s blog. These have been fun, both for content and to develop a habit for using the typewriter more often for writing, not just addressing envelopes.
Typing Assignment #3 is “to write a one-pager about youthful hang-outs. Write about some place you liked to spend time at when young, and perhaps a bit about the people you hung with and maybe even some special circumstance or story that transpired.”
Using my 1951 Royal Quiet De Luxe, (because the typeface is smaller and I can fit more words to the page), here is my submission titled “Leave the Driving to Us.”
Typing Assignment #1
Typing Assignment #2
After posting Typing Assignment #1, I watched the video about Assignment #2, and realized that the deadline for it was today. After watching the video and visiting Joe Van Cleave’s Blog page “Typing Assignment #2,” it was back to work.
The assignment is to “write a one-page essay on what you find unique and/or valuable about using typewriters as writing tools.” For this, I hammered out a rough draft on the Royal Quiet De Luxe, then polished it on the Olivetti Lettera 22. Below is my submission.
A couple weeks ago, I received an email from David Wells, creator of the Vermont Vintage Typewriter website, with his latest article. In it, he shared his submission to Joe Van Cleave’s “Typing Assignment.” Last week, another email arrived, with David’s submission to the second assignment. I kept the emails as new, wanting to refer back to them and consider this Typing Assignment project.
Today was the day. I didn’t read David’s submissions, not wanting to be influenced by them. Instead, I went directly to Joe Van Cleave’s blog. I found the article and video describing the purpose of this project.
Okay. Sounds good. Though I’ve never been a writer who has been inspired by writing prompts, I have been looking for a way to give my typewriters more use. Their function lately has been to address envelopes.
This is Typing Assignment #1
Well, too late to include it on his website, I decided to do this just to get started on this project. My hope is that I’ll be timely for Assignment #3.
Here’s my response to this first Typing Assignment.
The following is the up-to-date record for every NPSL regular season and playoff match versus each opponent.
NPSL REGULAR SEASON
AFC Ann Arbor
Games – 8
Wins – 2
Losses – 4
Draws – 2
Goals For: 8
Goals Against: 10
05/20/16: DCFC 1, AFC AA 1
07/03/16: AFC AA 1, DCFC 3
05/21/17: AFC AA 2, DCFC 0
07/07/17: DCFC-AFC AA abandoned
07/11/17: DCFC 1, AFC AA 3
05/13/18: AFC AA 1, DCFC 0
06/10/18: DCFC 0, AFC AA 1
05/24/19: DCFC 0, AFC AA 0.
07/07/19: AFC AA 1, DCFC 3
AFC Cleveland
Games – 8
Wins – 4
Losses – 1
Draws – 3
Goals For: 18
Goals Against: 12
05/12/12: DCFC 1, AFC C 1
06/08/12: AFC C 3, DCFC 2
06/23/12: DCFC 1, AFC C 1
05/17/13: DCFC 2, AFC C 1
06/21/13: AFC C 2, DCFC 3
07/05/13: AFC C 1, DCFC 1
06/15/14: AFC C 1, DCFC 5
05/15/15: DCFC 3, AFC C 2
Cincinnati Saints/Dayton Dynamo
Games – 6
Wins – 6
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 18
Goals Against – 5
05/10/14: DCFC 1, Saints 0
05/30/14: Saints 2, DCFC 3
07/06/14: DCFC 2, Saints 0
06/20/15: Saints 1, DCFC 3
05/15/16: Dynamo 2, DCFC 4
06/25/16: DCFC 5, Dynamo 0
Erie Admirals/Commodores
Games – 7
Wins – 3
Losses – 2
Draws – 2
Goals For – 16
Goals Against – 11
05/26/12: DCFC 3, Erie 0
06/15/12: Erie 3, DCFC 3
07/01/12: DCFC 1, Erie 2
06/09/13: DCFC 3, Erie 0
06/16/13: Erie 1, DCFC 2
06/06/14: DCFC 2, Erie 2
07/17/15: DCFC 2, Erie 3
FC Buffalo
Games – 7
Wins – 4
Losses – 1
Draws – 2
Goals For – 15
Goals Against – 5
05/13/12: BUFF 0, DCFC 0
06/16/12: DCFC 3, BUFF 0
06/30/12: BUFF 0, DCFC 4
06/23/13: DCFC 4, BUFF 0
07/07/13: BUFF 1, DCFC 2
07/09/13: BUFF 3, DCFC 1
05/23/14: BUFF 1, DCFC 1
FC Columbus
Games – 4
Wins – 3
Losses -0
Draws – 1
Goals For – 8
Goals Against – 1
05/25/18: DCFC 1, FCC 0
06/08/18: FCC 1, DCFC 1
06/02/19: DCFC 3, FCC 0
06/22/19: FCC 0, DCFC 3
FC Indiana Lions
Games – 6
Wins – 6
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 34
Goals Against – 1
06/04/17: FCI 1, DCFC 3
06/27/17: DCFC 2, FCI 0
05/27/18: FCI 0, DCFC 11
06/01/18: DCFC 8, FCI 0
05/27/19: FCI 0, DCFC 5
06/07/19: DCFC 5, FCI 0
FC Sparta/Michigan Stars FC
Games – 12
Wins – 8
Losses – 2
Draws – 2
Goals For – 29
Goals Against – 12
05/12/13: FCS 1, DCFC 5
05/31/13: DCFC 4, FCS 1
05/16/14: DCFC 3, Stars 0
07/04/14: Stars 2, DCFC 1
07/11/15: DCFC 3, Stars 1
07/19/15: Stars 0, DCFC 2
05/13/16: Stars 2, DCFC 2
07/15/16: DCFC 1, Stars 2
05/14/17: Stars 2, DCFC 2
06/30/17: DCFC 3, Stars 1
05/12/19: Stars 0, DCFC 1
06/14/19: DCFC 2, Stars 0
Fort Pitt
Games – 2
Wins – 2
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 4
Goals Against – 1
07/11/14: DCFC 3, Pitt 1
06/26/15: Pitt 0, DCFC 1
Grand Rapids FC
Games – 8
Wins – 2
Losses – 2
Draws – 4
Goals For: 12
Goals Against: 13
06/10/16: GRFC 5, DCFC 2
07/01/16: DCFC 0, GRFC 0
06/02/17: DCFC 3, GRFC 1
06/17/17: GRFC 0, DCFC 2
06/17/18: DCFC 0, GRFC 2
06/29/18: GRFC 4, DCFC 4
06/09/19: GRFC 0, DCFC 0
07/05/19: DCFC 1, GRFC 1
Greater Binghamton FC
Games – 3
Wins – 2
Losses – 0
Draws – 1
Goals For – 8
Goals Against – 0
05/19/12: GBFC 0, DCFC 4
05/20/12: GBFC 0, DCFC 0
06/02/12: DCFC 4, GBFC 0
Indiana Fire
Games – 3
Wins – 1
Losses – 1
Draws – 1
Goals For: 6
Goals Against: 4
06/01/14: Fire 2, DCFC 2
06/20/14: Fire 2, DCFC 0
06/29/14: DCFC 4, Fire 0
Kalamazoo FC
Games – 8
Wins – 4
Losses – 3
Draws – 1
Goals For – 15
Goals Against – 13
05/22/16: KFC 3, DCFC 2
06/19/16: DCFC 1, KFC 0
06/11/17: KFC 0, DCFC 1
06/23/17: DCFC 2, KFC 1
06/23/18: DCFC 1, KFC 1
07/07/18: KFC 4, DCFC 3
05/19/19: DCFC 2, KFC 3
07/13/19: KFC 1, DCFC 3
Lansing United
Games – 8
Wins – 3
Losses – 2
Draws – 3
Goals For – 13
Goals Against – 14
05/23/14: DC 1, LU 0
07/13/14: LU 2, DCFC 2
05/31/15: LU 3, DCFC 1
06/28/15: DCFC 1, LU 0
06/12/16: DCFC 2, LU 2
07/10/16: LU 3, DCFC 1
07/09/17: LU 1, DCFC 2
07/14/17: DCFC 3, LU 3
Madison 76ers
Games – 1
Wins – 1
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 5
Goals Against – 0
Milwaukee Torrent
Games – 4
Wins – 3
Losses – 0
Draws – 1
Goals For – 12
Goals Against – 5
05/12/17: DCFC 3, Torrent 3
06/25/17: Torrent 1, DCFC 2
06/15/18: Torrent 0, DCFC 1
07/01/18: DCFC 6, Torrent 1
Minnesota TwinStars
Games – 1
Wins – 1
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 6
Goals Against – 1
Minnesota United Reserve
Games – 1
Wins – 0
Losses – 0
Draws – 1
Goals For – 2
Goals Against – 2
06/14/15: MUR 2, DCFC 2
Toledo Villa FC
Games – 2
Wins – 2
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 11
Goals Against – 0
06/16/19: TVA 0, DCFC 5
06/30/19: DCFC 6, TVA 0
Zanesville Athletic
Games – 3
Wins – 3
Losses – 0
Draws – 0
Goals For – 9
Goals Against – 0
05/25/13: DCFC 2, ZA 0
06/14/13: DCFC 4, ZA 0
06/30/13: ZA 0, DCFC 3
PLAYOFFS
AFC Ann Arbor
Games – 1
Wins – 1
Losses – 0
Goals For – 3
Goals Against – 2
07/29/17 (Midwest Region Final in Hamtramck, MI): DCFC 3, AFC AA 2
AFC Cleveland
Games – 3
Wins – 1
Losses -2
Goals For – 5
Goals Against – 5
07/14/12 (Division Semi-Final in Cleveland, OH): AFC C 2, DCFC 1
07/13/13 (Division Semi-Final in Detroit, MI): DCFC 3, AFC C 1
07/24/15 (Division Semi-Final in Madison, WI): AFC C 2, DCFC 1
Cleveland SC
Games – 1
Wins – 0
Losses 0 1
Goals For – 2
Goals Against 2
07/21/19 (Midwest Region Final in Detroit, MI) DCFC 2, CSC 2 (PK: 2-3)
Dakota Fusion FC
Games – 1
Wins – 1
Losses – 0
Goals For – 5
Goals Against – 1
07/22/17 (Midwest Region Playoff in Hamtramck, MI): DCFC 5, Dakota 1
Duluth FC
Games – 1
Wins – 1
Losses – 0
Goals For: 5
Goals Against: 2
07/28/17 (Midwest Region Semi-Final in Hamtramck, MI): DCFC 5, Duluth 2.
Erie Admirals
Games – 1
Wins – 0
Losses – 1
Goals For – 1
Goals Against – 4
07/14/13 (Division Final in Detroit): DCFC 1, Erie 4
Midland-Odessa FC
Games – 1
Wins – 0
Losses – 1
Goals For – 0
Goals Against – 0
08/05/17 (NPSL Semi-Final): DCFC 0, MOFC 0 (2-4 PKs)
Minneapolis SC
Games – 1
Wins – 1
Losses – 0
Goals For – 2
Goals Against – 0
07/19/19 (Midwest Region Semi-Final)
If you like westerns mixed with sword & sorcery, you might be interested Susan Hillwig’s writing, who I shared the table with this year.
Last year’s ‘Made in Michigan’ typewritten page is HERE.
While you’re there, you can check out the Detroit Institute of Arts’ InsideOut masterpieces around Mount Clemens.
DoHaeng Michael Kitchen 