"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.

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lookskinda like Walton Goggins but besides that, is he actually good?

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just use a pen and paper

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This guy is a fricking 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 frick. Imagine using a fricking typewriter

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why the frick do you nerd a printer? Most printers take a usb, dullard.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Again, why do you need paper, moron?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Laptops have screens.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        print over internet pleb

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Just buy an early 2000 thinkpad,
      If you only do this you are not matching the functional equivalent of a typewriter. How fricking slow are you? Are you just a zoomer?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You still do not understand that when using a typewriter there is an actual fricking 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.

          Holy shit, you are genuinely fricking 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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            man, homie, my good sir, yall is a moron

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Holy shit, you are genuinely fricking 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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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/jerking off 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.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Typewriters are pretentious.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you're not writing with a quill on vellum you're basically a hack and a total pseud

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      real homies just freestyle on the mic (socrates, buddha, jesus, mohammed) and then pseuds write it down for posterity

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This niqqa fetishizing a piece of paper. What a fukin goober

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I guess that’s just opinion I guess

  9. 10 months ago
    aaa

    You can become a great writer on pen and paper or phone if you are talented. The easiest is a laptop or pc.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        aaa

        Uts all about self-discipline. If it's that bad, I'd use a notebook and just type it in later.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          A notebook isn't even as convenient as a typewriter.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not true. You can cross out any mistakes, or if youre using a pencil you can just erase it completely.

          • 10 months ago
            aaa

            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.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't get it, what does google have to do with my MS Word 2002?

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you think what you write on matters you will always be a bad writer and a literally who.

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly John Mayer said it best. The analogy of your hard drives being a high tech version of a trash heap is spot on.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    yes, 99.9% of all published authors were just BTFO'd by this one moron. oh no

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      99.9% of published authors published before the computer had been invented.

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >blocks your path

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just write on my phone in google docs or notes

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        not really. just use swipe to type if yore having speed issues.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm sure there were autists who thought writing on paper was the only true way of writing when the typewriter was invented

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