[HN Gopher] David Milch's disembodied writing process
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       David Milch's disembodied writing process
        
       Author : blending
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2024-02-26 15:12 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | Theodores wrote:
       | Some endeavours are a lot easier if you can pay a team of people
       | to help you.
       | 
       | But sometimes it matters to do all the hard work yourself. In the
       | UK we had a popular left-wing politician and he wrote many books
       | about class struggle and worker solidarity. However, he lived in
       | his mansion and had a team of people. He just had to put down his
       | cup of tea and dictate whatever was on his mind for one of his
       | staff to get it typed up and edited.
       | 
       | Lucky for him. However, he was somewhat removed from the
       | situation of the writer that has the bailiffs coming to evict
       | him, the bank sending him nasty letters and a lung infection from
       | the mould growing on the damp walls of his dwelling.
       | 
       | It all depends on what you are writing, however, I think that
       | less is more if you are to write in words that reach an audience
       | that lacks the privileges you have.
        
         | tetris11 wrote:
         | Tony Benn?
         | 
         | Wealth should never be an issue when writing about the rights
         | of the others. The working class are too tired and distracted
         | to spend the time to muse about their situation, who better
         | then than someone who at least has the luxury to notice them
         | and codify their plight?
         | 
         | If you're poor and you complain about the plight of the poor,
         | people label you as bitter. If you're rich and you complain
         | about the plight of poor, people label you as out of touch.
         | Can't win.
        
       | NotSammyHagar wrote:
       | This was a great piece! He really writes in a room with a group
       | of people. He avoids writing alone because there is too much time
       | to fuck around and do nothing, surf the net in today's terms.
       | That is so true. I love working at home alone, but at times I'll
       | get stuck for days, messing around, accomplishing nothing.
       | 
       | Then boom, it hits me and I'm back doing great work. Or at least
       | doing some more "useful and productive" work.
        
       | cmgriffing wrote:
       | Funnily enough, I wrote a tool to dictate books that seems very
       | similar to this [1]. I was inspired to make it by an episode of
       | Columbo, though. I wonder if David Milch also took inspiration
       | from the same episode [2].
       | 
       | [1]: https://orderly.cmgriffing.com/ [2]:
       | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066932/
        
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