If you are writing on a computer it will co-opt your intelligence, usurp your voice. You will be writing GOOGLE's voice, NOT YOUR OWN.
"You can only become a great writer if you use a typewriter"
If you are writing on a computer it will co-opt your intelligence, usurp your voice. You will be writing GOOGLE's voice, NOT YOUR OWN.
Lookskinda like Walton Goggins but besides that, is he actually good?
I just use a pen and paper
This guy is a fucking grifter and a literal who. Just buy an early 2000 thinkpad, install ubuntu (super easy), install open source writing software, then disconnect it from wifi. Simple as fuck. Imagine using a fucking typewriter
We do imagine it because we have been talking about it. And everyone who says to get an old laptop never mentions anything about a printer, odd, it's like their tiny brains don't understand there is actual paper that is typed on.
Why the fuck do you nerd a printer? Most printers take a usb, dullard.
Withour a printer there is no paper, thus typewriter is superior in this regard. If you want a laptop to reach the functional equivalent of a typewriter you must also factor in a printer.
You clearly are the dullard here.
Again, why do you need paper, retard?
Laptops have screens.
print over internet pleb
>Just buy an early 2000 thinkpad,
If you only do this you are not matching the functional equivalent of a typewriter. How fucking slow are you? Are you just a zoomer?
switch the internet off on your pc, uninstall your games, and now you have a typewriter.
yes you are, if you uninstall it's internet capability and only have writing software on it and nothing else it is the functional equivalent.
You still do not understand that when using a typewriter there is an actual fucking sheet of paper your are making with text on it. Something you can only get out of a computer WITH a printer added to it.
man, nigga, my good sir, yall is a retard
Holy shit, you are genuinely fucking stupid. What is it like having a consciousness where in the span of five minutes alone, you don’t have a single thought: just pure nothingness? Then when you see posts, they’re just symbols since you can’t even comprehend simple sentences.
>If you only do this you are not matching the functional equivalent of a typewriter.
Not him but assuming you don't have the willpower to keep the internet turned off on your computer while you write, you definitely also lack the willpower to actually keep sitting in front of the typewriter without checking your phone/going to play videogames/masturbating etc. The gap is such an infinitesimally small one it makes absolutely no sense.
Even the act of buying a laptop just for writing is somewhat absurd considering that you can simply use whatever machine you have to write, but I'll concede that you might want an old laptop for the sake of, say, moving into the living room to write - away from your other hobbies and whatnot. Any shitty laptop and a laser printer will be straight up better than a typewriter. It's nothing but a gigantically gay LARP to pretend you're Cormac McCarthy.
Typewriters are pretentious.
Notepad and other simple tools are the modern equivalent, I would say. I feel like you would spend a lot of time servicing and learning about the mechanical workings, which I'm not against, but it's a different hobby. I'm not an aspiring writer, fixing up typewriters is probably even more up my alley, but it's hard to argue they're a better choice.
If you're not writing with a quill on vellum you're basically a hack and a total pseud
real niggas just freestyle on the mic (socrates, buddha, jesus, mohammed) and then pseuds write it down for posterity
This niqqa fetishizing a piece of paper. What a fukin goober
I guess that’s just opinion I guess
You can become a great writer on pen and paper or phone if you are talented. The easiest is a laptop or pc.
You seem to be missing the point of the video, or you haven't watched it. It's about not having access to distractions. When I have no internet access, I feel like a completely different being, and I can actually be bothered to write. Technology also seems to have the tendency to make artists less authentic, as you're constantly exposed to people's opinions on art.
>phone
This does the same for me as a typewriter under the right circumstances. I don't have an internet subscription and I don't have games on my phone. Sometimes I go on walks and write down my thoughts.
Uts all about self-discipline. If it's that bad, I'd use a notebook and just type it in later.
A notebook isn't even as convenient as a typewriter.
Not true. You can cross out any mistakes, or if youre using a pencil you can just erase it completely.
It is. It's cheap. If you use a graphite pen with an eraser, it's easy to erase what you dont like without searching for a special model of typewriter... its also much lighter.
I don't get it, what does google have to do with my MS Word 2002?
If you think what you write on matters you will always be a bad writer and a literally who.
Typewriter is ultimate distraction, not to mention better have a good filing systems, otherwise you can lose all your work, water, fire all hazards to your process, being a writer is being productive about your ideas no more no less
Honestly John Mayer said it best. The analogy of your hard drives being a high tech version of a trash heap is spot on.
I was reading a poetry collection by a guy who passed away, and the editors, who were friends of him, basically recreated the book from the files that they found in his PC folders.
It's garbage.
Other people going through your computer hard drive after your death, motivated by some lamentful condition, is not even close to the same thing as a writer digging through his own hard drive of text files because.
You are right it is garbage, digital garbage
yes, 99.9% of all published authors were just BTFO'd by this one retard. oh no
99.9% of published authors published before the computer had been invented.
>blocks your path
If you read Emerson, you will be writing EMERSON's voice, NOT YOUR OWN.
If you read, C.S. Lewis, you will be writing LEWIS'S voice, NOT YOUR OWN.
and so on and so on
I just write on my phone in google docs or notes
Same here. The convenience of being able to discreetly write anywhere at anytime is incredible, especially for when inspiration randomly strikes.
Insisting on a typewriter is like color-coding your bookshelf, it appeals to the same masturbatory aesthetic. The problem with computers is just internet access and games, which you could easily solve if you really wanted to.
Writing on your phone is too slow and uncomfortable.
not really. just use swipe to type if yore having speed issues.
I'm sure there were autists who thought writing on paper was the only true way of writing when the typewriter was invented