I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lower case letter and it becomes a capital letter. In case you weren’t around then, WordStar 4.0 looks like this: I use WordStar 4.0 as my word processing system." "My writing computer.is a DOS machine, not connected to the Internet. "I actually have two computers," Martin told Conan O’Brien in May. Martin (author of the Game of Thrones series) says that he’s written every Game of Thrones book on a computer from the 70’s. If you have any other suggestions, I’d love to see them in comments. So I’ve gone searching for the simplest, most distraction-free writing interfaces for Mac, PC and mobile that let me focus on content and structure, not formatting. And while Word look-alikes with sharing capabilities (i.e., Google Docs) are nice, I definitely don’t want to see all the tabs of my internet browser open while I’m trying to focus. I don’t want to think about formatting while I write. And as such, it’s cluttered with a lot of menu bars, side options - and it autoformats and autocorrects things you don’t want it to. Microsoft Word isn’t actually a writing tool And I think it's time to break off our 15-year relationship. Whether it’s a creative piece, a blog post, or a copywriting job for a client, I use Microsoft Word out of habit - not because it’s good.
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