Some things to do to distress or physically manipulate text.

1. Using a typewriter, if you have access to one, type over the same text multiple times. Try misaligning the paper each time, type with no ribbon to create impressions, or use carbon paper to create layered effects on the paper underneath.
   
   
2. Write or print text on transparent sheets. Layer them at different angles, or offset them, to create overlapping and layered text. Add detail with markers or coloured transparent sheets.
   
   
3. Using a stylus or embossing tool, impress text into paper, creating raised/indented text. Manipulate the paper folding, crumpling, or tearing to distort the text.
   
   
4. Create something text-based or print a page of text, run it through a photocopier multiple times, shift the paper each time or change settings like contrast or exposure.
   
   
5. Cut strips of texted paper and weave them together to create new compositions.
   
   
6. Expose text-covered paper to natural elements like rain, sun, or dirt to manipulate the text or paper with weathering processes.
   
   
7. Apply tape over parts of text-covered papers then peel it off to remove layers of the text or paper in order to create something distressed.
   
   
8. Using the image of a person, either whole body or just the face, and a selected page of text. Cut selected parts of the person's image away to make the text underneath visible.