More Than You Need

Picture Hemingway. Or Thoreau. Or Virginia Woolf.

The idea is to get in your head the image of an author — someone from before the computer. Before the transistor, even. Someone who has only been in black-and-white photos, or sepia-toned daguerreotypes.

Real old school. This person maybe used a typewriter, or more likely, wrote their work by hand. You’ve seen examples of their handwriting, something that you don’t see too often anymore. I’ve never seen any of my friends’ handwriting, unless the...