The only problem with that advice is that sometimes, especially when you’re comfortable with your current writing tools, it can seem like more trouble than it’s worth to investigate new, potentially better options. At a certain point, it makes sense to take stock of new developments – whether they be hardware or software – and damn the questionable example of an infinite number of monkeys in favor of something that makes it easier to produce great work. You’ve Got Maileven introduces Greg Kinnear’s impassioned, intellectual columnist by showing he has three typewriters, suggesting he’s either of near-sublime virtue or that he stumbled across some kind of sale in the movie’s unseen prologue.īut whatever writerliness we’re told is bound up in using the simplest possible tools rarely translates into productivity or better craft. As an Amazon Affiliate we earn from qualifying purchases.Ĭan writers afford to be precious about how they write? Pop culture certainly seems to think we should be – showing an author at their typewriter is shorthand for a kind of worthy artistry in most movies, while anyone on their laptop or (shock, horror) a tablet is suggested to be a coffee-shop-haunting dilettante. This article may contain affiliate links and we may earn a small commission when you click on the links at no additional cost to you.
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