Franklin’s Method

Benjamin Franklin taught himself to write like this. He read a short piece, jotted “short hints of the sentiment in each sentence”, put them away for a few days, then rebuilt the piece without looking — and compared his version with the original. Try it with an old fable.

Getting the fables…

The fables are George Fyler Townsend’s 1867 translation of Aesop, from Project Gutenberg, with each one-line moral left off. What you type stays on this device.