3/21/2023 0 Comments Cloud story planner for writersLast week's Me is my own worst enemy when it comes to unleashing creativity. I am tempted to read and reread my previous work, making minor adjustments as I go. When I open a project in Ulysses, for example, with the intention of writing a new section, I often find myself drawn into older portions of the text. What has been a major distraction, ironically enough, is my own previous writing. For me, the Internet has rarely been much of a distraction from writing on a computer. If I'm being honest, I have never been terribly active on social media, and could not care less about any of that. Freedom from your web browser, from Facebook notifications and Twitter and attention-demanding email messages are often cited. Much lip service is paid to Freewrite being a "distraction-free" writing environment. However, as I use the Hemingwrite more, the new lesson is starting to make a lot of sense. I have learned that the modern school of composition favors the separation of drafting and editing into two distinct activities-something I was never previously taught. The bottom line is this: it takes some getting used to, but for certain styles of writing, I am beginning to feel it really is the best method. To go back to a device with minimal editing functionality has been a bit of a culture shock. I have subsequently been doing my writing in full-featured software programs for virtually all of my adult life. Nevertheless, that same father was also forward-thinking enough to buy me a Macintosh for Christmas back when they were still all-in-one, little beige boxes. I am also no stranger to mechanical typewriters I still have my father's old Adler (though good luck finding ribbons for it). I am just old enough that when typing-up reports in primary school, it sometimes happened on an electric typewriter. Hemingwrite is a beautiful tool, in the same sense that a set of finely crafted chisels and planers might be to the artisan woodworker. Most of all, because I sense the personal value I can find in the object. Why spend $800 on a Mont Blanc when a Bic will do? Because I work hard, I can afford it, and I like nice things. ![]() I, for one, am unapologetic in my perspective. If you feel the need to justify such an indulgence you may sense an uphill battle ahead of you. In a world of pocket-computers with millions of apps on hand to do everything from control your home's thermostat to calculate the orbit of comets, Hemingwrite is a ludicrously expensive piece of retro technology intended to do only one thing, but do it well: write. ![]() The Freewrite-and even more so, the Hemingway Edition-is a polarizing device, and perhaps it was always destined to be received thus.
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