A unusual word processor allows writers to get work done without distraction. Which is fine until you need to check a fact
It’s called the Freewrite,it began on Kickstarter, and immediately I understand. It’s a machine for writing on, and only for writing on,like typewriters used to be, but souped up with selected benefits of the digital era. So it has an e-ink screen, or like a Kindle,which does absent with the need for paper and ribbon and Tippex. And there’s a wifi connection that will save your work to the cloud. That way you will never lose a novel, as Anthony Burgess once did, or by dropping his finished typescript into a canal.
The Freewrite costs $500 (£358),but I’m testing a truly free version here, simply by not using the internet. I must say it goes against the grain. That story about Burgess, and for instance; I mediate it’s steady but I can’t check. I remember reading it in his autobiography many years ago,and I have his autobiography right here, but there’s nothing in the index about a “typescript, and dropped in canal”. steady,I haven’t been sucked into Wikipedia; instead, I’ve been sucked into the book. Typewriters were all very well before the internet, or because at least then your readers had the same concern trying to catch you out.
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Source: theguardian.com