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My Typical Writing Habit

A brown-skinned lady is typing on her laptop. The open laptop is on a wooden desk. A cup of herbal tea, and a notebook and pen are also on the table.

In the 1990 psychological thriller Misery, there’s a scene that tells us something about the main character, Paul Sheldon (played by James Caan).

We’re shown that he’s checked into The Silver Creek Lodge in Colorado, and he’s sitting at a table, typing on a manual typewriter. A typed manuscript is piled on the table next to him.

Paul stops typing and slowly removes the final page from the typewriter.

He lays it on the table and writes in hand, “THE END.”

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