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Originally Posted by kacir
There is a famous interview of GRRM with Patrick O'Brien where he describes his DOS computer running wordstar. And the interview isn't *that* old.
Some authors have very peculiar choices regarding the system of writing. Rowling writes in pen on paper. Jonathan Franzen famously typed blindfolded in a completely dark, almost empty room he rented for just that purpose, so he could concentrate better on his characters.
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This is
precisely the sort of thing that sounds so
utterly charming and eccentric and just soooo endearing to the people who read Famous Writer X, and is so exhausting, trite, privileged and vexing to the people who have to then take his priceless mutterings and make them into ACTUAL (*&^%$#@ books.
Lord,
I would not be running around,
in public, saying that MY mind is so vapid, so shallow, that if I had to learn to use newer software that all my creative ability would suddenly evaporate.
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Once you are famous enough, you can get away with almost anything [as long as you keep producing manuscripts].
When I become a very famous writer I will be bragging that I write in Vim ;-).
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Yes, well, when you do, say anything you want, but please deliver the manuscript to the poor slobs who work on it in a usable format.
Hitch