Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
"[Hunter S. Thompson] chose, rather than writing original copy, to re-type books like The Great Gatsby and a lot of Norman Mailer, the Naked and the Dead, a lot of Hemingway. He would sit down there on an old type-writer and type every word of those books and he said, 'I just wanna feel what it feels like to write that we'll.'"<p>HST: "If you type out somebody's work, you learn a lot about it. Amazingly it's like music. And from typing out parts of Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - these were writers that were very big in my life and the lives of the people around me - so yea I wanted to learn from the best I guess."<p><a href="http://brianjohnspencer.blogspot.com/2014/06/hunter-s-thompson-typing-out-work-of.html" rel="nofollow">http://brianjohnspencer.blogspot.com/2014/06/hunter-s-thomps...</a>