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Originally Posted by Hitch
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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If it works for them, more power to them. I know I write better without a GUI word processor because formatting gets in the way of my when putting words together. Whether it's "charming," or "eccentric" or an odd quirk, I don't care. It's what works for me. And, I'm guessing, what these successful writers you mentioned use what works for them. Why would you consider it "vapid" or "shallow" to choose what they like? Why this need for conformity? I would consider it more vapid and shallow to use the popular word processor just because it's popular.
For example I hate Word, always have. As far as I'm concerned it's clumsy crap – and no amount of peer pressure would ever induce me to use what I despise.