Write Without Distraction on the Hemingwrite
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Distractions Loom Around Every Corner
The modern age we live in is full of distractions that keep writers from writing. But in the old days, writers like Ernest Hemingway, a man who liked to keep his writing clean and simple, knew the secret to shut out all the extraneous noise and keep their fingers flying across the keys.
![Hemingway writing.](https://fordsbasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/hemingway-1-640.jpg)
That secret, apparently, was writing in a field.
The Perfect Tool for Distraction-Free Writing
Enter the Hemingwrite, a crazy simple device which looks a lot like a portable typewriter from the days of yore. Some call it the Kindle of writing composition. It’s lightweight, compact, and the perfect platform to do all your writing — distraction-free.
![The Hemingwrite prototype.](https://fordsbasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hemingwrite-1-640.jpg)
It takes the simplicity of a typewriter — a mechanical keyboard as well as a few other manual switches and knobs for that extra bits of tactility — and enhances it with modern conveniences like a battery that lasts for more than four weeks, a memory that holds more than one million written pages, and a six-inch E-Ink display to help keep you writing day and night.
It also comes with built-in wi-fi so you can easily backup your work to your favorite cloud apps (Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox) while avoiding those productivity-sucking beasts (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia).
When it launched on Kickstarter it blew right past its funding goal of $250,000. A backing level of $400 guaranteed a Hemingwrite of your very own. With $25 you got a T-shirt.
And if the last thing you need is another device, there’s always the cloud-based Hemingway App.
![Manual Typewriter](https://fordsbasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/typewriter.jpg)
The Hemingwrite name proved to be problematic for some reason. When the device (finally) launched in 2015, the name changed to Freewrite.
But the Hemingwrite still has a presence at The Hemingwrite, a single-serving website with a link to buy the Hemingway Edition of the Freewrite, which will set you back a cool $999.