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StJohn · 3082 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Smart Typewriter Is a Thing and I’m in Love With It
I agree — I think a lot of money gets spent by people who want to pay to be writers, but who never actually write anything. You can get exactly the same effect with pen and paper, or a text editor, or a distraction-free mode like you described. Still, I can't help wanting to try the thing out. It is a pretty gadget.
A lot of people miss the writing part of writing, and being a writer. They think if they acquire the tools of a writer, they will magically be one. But writing is just stringing words together, one after another, until you have forgotten there are other people in the house. That's the long and short of it, really.