Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
by rullelito on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:42AM
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Yes, strange indeed, I expected Terry to only roll with the latest in tech.
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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
by laumars on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:57AM
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Sarcasm? There has been interviews with him where he discusses his "writing equipment" and like many authors he preferred a basic system that kept mostly out of his way. I mean it's just as easy to write a novel in Word for DOS* as it is in the latest software and hardware tech, so why would authors want to waste their time always running the latest tech when it's a distraction from their day job?
* I'm not advocating people write novels in DOS. Just making an exaggerated point that since the medium is text only you don't need to be upgrading frequently.
Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
by jrimbault on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:00AM
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Isn't GRR Martin famously writing on a DOS computer ?
Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
by digi_owl on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:21AM
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Using Wordstar no less, must drive his editor and publisher bonkers.
Not that i can't relate. If i could find a CLI browser that kept up with latest CSS and JS stuff, i would be doing everything in a framebuffer CLI.