[PJ-Comix]

When I first started out writing, my dad who was a yuuuuge Hemingway fan criticized me because his hero Hemingway wrote standing up while I sat down. I told him that Hemingway also wrote while drunk so should I also follow suit?

[Red Badger]

Never write a sentence with less than 35 words.

Never stay on a miniscule subject longer than 35 pages.

Never write a paragraph with less than 35 thoughts...............

[The_Media_never_lie]

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/192696

I think your dad may have been jealous because Hemingway got to hang out with Lauren Bacall in Spain.

[Bernard Marx]

Hemingway wrote standing up because he had a serious case of hemorrhoids. Sitting was painful for him. I don’t know how much this influenced his writing. His prose is beautiful but I don’t think he had much to say that’s still significanlty relevant.

[gundog]

He wrote in the morning, before drinking, as a rule. The standing up may have been related to hemorrhoids.

[abb]

Perhaps Papa’s greatest contribution to mankind was this invention:

https://www.mixology.recipes/cocktails/dry-martini-mongomery-s-15-1-ratio

Dry Martini (Mongomery’s 15:1 ratio)

Stir in mixing glass with ice and strain
2 oz London dry gin (6 cl)
1/8 oz dry vermouth (0.4 cl)
1 dash orange bitters
Serve in a well chilled cocktail glass (4.5 oz)

The favorite Martini of Ernest Hemingway. Named after Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976) who is said to have preferred having 15:1 advantage for his attacks.

[Brass Lamp]

When I first started out writing, my dad who was a yuuuuge Hemingway fan criticized me because his hero Hemingway wrote standing up while I sat down. I told him that Hemingway also wrote while drunk so should I also follow suit?

It must have been difficult to sit when wading in the waist-high blood of his good friends' victims.