Here's Neal Stephenson, a well-known genre novelist:
In the past you’ve experimented with different ways of writing your books –like writing The Baroque Cycle by hand. How did you write REAMDE?
This one I wrote on a laptop. The Baroque Cycle and Anathem I did write long hand, and then typed it in. And in this case I just happened to be moving around a lot, and it was less convenient for me to sit up my little nest with the paper and the pen and the ink and all that, and more easy to just bang it out on a laptop.
Are you still using Emacs?
I use Scrivener.
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