George RR Martin's productivity secret

Author of the popular series of novels "A Song of Ice and Fire," George RR Martin shared the secret of his productivity. All the matter in the computer and the program.

The name of George RR Martin's lips at all. And no wonder. In addition to great books, many know him for the series "Game of Thrones", which is based on the cycle of his novels "A Song of Ice and Fire."

I think many people have read these books, and therefore know how big each of them. Each novel contains about 1,000 pages, and create a book of this size, no matter good or bad - it is an incredibly difficult task. In a recent interview on the popular American show «Late Night with Conan O'Brien», he shared the secret of his productivity.

Here is what he says:

I have two computers: one I use for the Internet, mail, pay bills and more. The second - only for writing books. This is an old computer in the DOS, which does not have access to the Internet.

To write his book, Martin uses a program Wordstar 4.0 - a DOS-utilities for writers, which was popular in the 80s. Wordstar has long ceased to exist officially. However, if you want to try it and to awaken a latent writer, you'll find plenty of ways to download and install the program.

Why did George Martin uses the antediluvian software and hardware?

This program does everything that I need. Modern text editors are constantly climb where you do not have to try and help. I do not need help. I hate programs that correct lowercase to uppercase. If I will need a capital letter, I put it. Do not do it for me. I know how it works «Shift».

Perhaps it's not so bad. I decided to see what would become the names of the main characters, thanks to auto-correction. Instead Daenerys - "degraded", instead of Lannister - "autumn erased." Brrr.

You should not run headlong and put the legacy software, in the hope to immediately become cool writer. Still, Martin thought about minimalism and the division of work and entertainment is not devoid of logic. What do you think?