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If Ernest Hemingway used a modern writing app, the word count feature would keep sending him congratulations: 'You've written 50,000 words!' Hemingway would delete 45,000 of them and reply, 'Now it's literature.' The app, confused, would offer: 'Would you like to enable autosave?' Hemingway would type back a single word: 'No.' The app would then suggest: 'Your readers might enjoy more adjectives!' It would never hear from him again.
Hemingway's editor arrives in the afterlife and finds himself in a waiting room. 'Is this heaven or hell?' he asks. 'Neither,' says the attendant. 'This is purgatory. Your task is to convince Hemingway to add adjectives.' The editor sighs: 'So it IS hell.'
If Ernest Hemingway used a modern writing app, the word count feature would keep sending him congratulations: 'You've written 50,000 words!' Hemingway would delete 45,000 of them and reply, 'Now it's literature.' The app, confused, would offer: 'Would you like to enable autosave?' Hemingway would type back a single word: 'No.' The app would then suggest: 'Your readers might enjoy more adjectives!' It would never hear from him again.
Hemingway's editor arrives in the afterlife and finds himself in a waiting room. 'Is this heaven or hell?' he asks. 'Neither,' says the attendant. 'This is purgatory. Your task is to convince Hemingway to add adjectives.' The editor sighs: 'So it IS hell.'
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