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Ernest Hemingway gets a smartphone. His entire text conversation with his editor:
Editor: 'How's the new novel coming?'
Hemingway: 'Good.'
Editor: 'Can you elaborate?'
Hemingway: 'Man writes. Man struggles. Man sends.'
Editor: 'That's the plot summary?'
Hemingway: 'That's the novel.'
Editor: 'Ernest, it's 6 words.'
Hemingway: 'Baby shoes reference was 6 too. This one has punctuation. You're welcome.'
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.'
A minimalist author spends twenty years writing his masterpiece. His editor finally receives the manuscript: a single page with one sentence. 'This is it?' she asks. 'It took me two decades,' he replies proudly. 'The first ten years were spent writing a 900-page epic. The next ten were spent cutting it down to its essence.' She reads aloud: 'Things happened, then ended.' He nods solemnly. 'Every word was earned.'
Ernest Hemingway gets a smartphone. His entire text conversation with his editor: Editor: 'How's the new novel coming?' Hemingway: 'Good.' Editor: 'Can you elaborate?' Hemingway: 'Man writes. Man struggles. Man sends.' Editor: 'That's the plot summary?' Hemingway: 'That's the novel.' Editor: 'Ernest, it's 6 words.' Hemingway: 'Baby shoes reference was 6 too. This one has punctuation. You're welcome.'
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.'
A minimalist author spends twenty years writing his masterpiece. His editor finally receives the manuscript: a single page with one sentence. 'This is it?' she asks. 'It took me two decades,' he replies proudly. 'The first ten years were spent writing a 900-page epic. The next ten were spent cutting it down to its essence.' She reads aloud: 'Things happened, then ended.' He nods solemnly. 'Every word was earned.'
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