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Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience
Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2102 - Will Storr
Published on June 27, 2024
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The Great Gatsby
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It's the same with writing; if you read a book that you really love, the next day you turn your computer on and you'll be writing in a slight variation of that style. Didn't he write The Great Gatsby over and over again just to get a sense of the rhythm of the words while learning how to write?
In this segment, Joe Rogan discusses how reading influential books can inspire writers to emulate the styles they admire. He refers to 'The Great Gatsby' and questions whether its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote it multiple times to grasp the rhythm of writing.
I'm sure I've read that about Hunter Thompson; I believe he definitely typed out The Great Gatsby and Farewell to Arms word for word as a method for learning how to write like the masters.
Joe Rogan suggests that Hunter S. Thompson used to type out 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Farewell to Arms' as a way of learning how to write well, mentioning their titles in the same sentence while discussing writing.