Grind.

Very fulfilling day today. Met with Minjoo Noh: author, musician, poet, painter and environmentalist. She was all smiles when she shared with me her first typewritten page ever, typed on an orange-colored Hermes Baby from the 1960s, made in Brazil, with cursive-script slugs, a smaller than usual font—and print that can be easily mistaken for freehand cursive. Amazing. Was so happy to hold someone else’s book in hand for the first time, other than my own.

Minjoo scans these pages on the days she has time. It’s helping my process tremendously, for which I am very grateful.

Also met with Oscar Agis, who has been filming my documentary of the auto-type process, and we conducted an interview/weblog tonight, which I’m sure you’ll see sometime this Fall, after all is said and done with breaking the world record of the most novels published in a year.

The grind continues. Looking to wrap this book, number 21 for the year, by Friday. Then two more, and the rest, as we say, is history.

-W.V.Carleton