>he needs to be alone and undisturbed in order to write "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" 9 billion times
>>221392882yeah this guy sucked at writing. giant plot hole
>>221392882>>221392892good points
>>221392882It's pretty clear that he banged out that particular manuscript overnight for Wendy to discover the next morning. If you stay up all night and type type type, it's feasible to bang out a few hundred formatted pages looking like that (full of typos, just keep typing). There's a shot of him banging away hurriedly at the typewriter as they transition from overnight to the following morning as Hallorann takes his plane ride and Wendy locks Danny in the apartment while sneaking the bat out to confront him. This also makes sense in another way: he's been up for over 24 hours, and anyone will get punchy after that, and if you add in that he's gone nuts being sleep-deprived just fuels the crazy (he mentions being unable to sleep earlier in the film). When Wendy knocks him out and locks him, she does him a favor, allowing him to actually get some (very low-quality) sleep during the mid-day, giving him just enough juice for his final rampage at night. The fact that this sleep period is short and low quality (together with the energy expended during the rampage itself) also easily explains why he crashes so quickly in the hedge maze, going to sleep for the last time.And yes, OP, what you wrote is literally true. Imagine if Wendy had discovered the manuscript only part-way finished. Ten or even thirty pages of that is not nearly as intimidating, doesn't establish the crazy. He used his several hours of solitude to maximum effect.
