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If Leo Tolstoy had used Microsoft Word, the autocorrect feature would have simply given up. After the fifteenth Russian aristocrat named Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich Bolkonsky-Rostov, the software would display a pop-up message: We noticed you are writing a Russian novel. Would you like to A) Enable the 47-character name limit B) Auto-generate a character relationship chart C) Just accept that nobody will remember who anyone is by page 200?
A writing student asks her professor: 'How do I know when my novel is finished?' The professor replies: 'There are two schools of thought. Hemingway believed a novel was done when you could cut no more. Tolstoy believed it was done when your horse died of old age waiting for you to return from the writing cabin. Choose your horse wisely.'
If Leo Tolstoy had used Microsoft Word, the autocorrect feature would have simply given up. After the fifteenth Russian aristocrat named Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich Bolkonsky-Rostov, the software would display a pop-up message: We noticed you are writing a Russian novel. Would you like to A) Enable the 47-character name limit B) Auto-generate a character relationship chart C) Just accept that nobody will remember who anyone is by page 200?
A writing student asks her professor: 'How do I know when my novel is finished?' The professor replies: 'There are two schools of thought. Hemingway believed a novel was done when you could cut no more. Tolstoy believed it was done when your horse died of old age waiting for you to return from the writing cabin. Choose your horse wisely.'
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