George R. R. Martin Explains Why He WritesGame of Thronesin DOS

Sometimes , you require the tool that ’s well suit to the job in hand . And for George R. R. Martin , that means using an archaic word central processing unit — WordStar 4.0 , running on DOS , no less — to pen Game of Thrones . He explain why to Conan last dark .

First , it signify that he has a computing equipment dedicate to writing — obviously he does n’t hold in his email and browse the web on DOS , that ’d be silly — which presumptively grant him to concentrate better . But it seems the chief reason is simplicity : a lack of frustrative spell hitch and autocorrects , which is kind of what you want when writing new and strange fictional words on a day-after-day basis . [ Team Coco ]

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