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Post by Alan Petersen on May 14, 2014 13:57:25 GMT -5
I loved this clip from George R.R. Martin on Conan. This just proves that the best writing tool is the one that works best for you (Scrivener, Word, Open Office, Typewriter, whatever). He uses an old DOS word processor to write his books! I remember that Wordstar from way back when, I can't imagine still using it, but works for him (very well, I would say).  |
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Post by Becca Mills on May 14, 2014 15:11:31 GMT -5
He's getting perilously close to darling old man territory.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2014 15:20:57 GMT -5
That was fabulous. Thanks for posting it. |
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Post by Alan Petersen on May 14, 2014 16:28:45 GMT -5
Funny how he had to throw in that he was using the 4.0 version of Wordstar, not an older one. |
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Post by Becca Mills on May 14, 2014 16:32:07 GMT -5
Funny how he had to throw in that he was using the 4.0 version of Wordstar, not an older one. He doesn't want to come off like some stick in the mud! |
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Post by Alan Petersen on May 14, 2014 16:40:30 GMT -5
It must take hundreds of floppy disks to save his 1,000+ page MS. Maybe he's upgraded to an Iomega Zip drive. |
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Post by Becca Mills on May 14, 2014 17:21:04 GMT -5
It must take hundreds of floppy disks to save his 1,000+ page MS. Maybe he's upgraded to an Iomega Zip drive. LOL. If he's relying on floppy disks, okay, that's terrifying. |
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Post by vrabinec on May 15, 2014 13:22:21 GMT -5
It must take hundreds of floppy disks to save his 1,000+ page MS. Maybe he's upgraded to an Iomega Zip drive. LOL. If he's relying on floppy disks, okay, that's terrifying. I've still got a bunch of files on two floppys, among them, two trunked novels. I'll have to get those converted at some point. |
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Post by Becca Mills on May 15, 2014 16:00:21 GMT -5
LOL. If he's relying on floppy disks, okay, that's terrifying. I've still got a bunch of files on two floppys, among them, two trunked novels. I'll have to get those converted at some point. I'd do that ASAP!  |
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Post by Alan Petersen on May 15, 2014 16:16:22 GMT -5
I've still got a bunch of files on two floppys, among them, two trunked novels. I'll have to get those converted at some point. I'd do that ASAP! That could be a great story, old novel dug out of an old floppy disk goes on to sell millions of copies. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2014 16:29:01 GMT -5
Love the clip!
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Post by Daniel on May 15, 2014 16:35:39 GMT -5
It must take hundreds of floppy disks to save his 1,000+ page MS. Maybe he's upgraded to an Iomega Zip drive. LOL. If he's relying on floppy disks, okay, that's terrifying. Post Pulse, only a miniscule number of print editions will be around to prove that I ever wrote a book. That's what terrifies me. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2014 21:30:26 GMT -5
I'm sorely tempted to go to DOS just to have some form of word processor that doesn't crash!
Everything crashes, glitches, drops...
(I'm currently fuming due to tablet keyboard issues. The 'back' button is where the '1/!' is on my normal board. I've retyped the same scene twice now! >_<)
I'd go the old-fashioned pencil and paper route but I can't scribble legibly fast enough to keep up with the flow. Think I'll go hit my head on the desk a few times then see if I can get any progress made before I crash for the night.
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Post by vrabinec on May 16, 2014 7:30:29 GMT -5
I'm sorely tempted to go to DOS just to have some form of word processor that doesn't crash! Everything crashes, glitches, drops... (I'm currently fuming due to tablet keyboard issues. The 'back' button is where the '1/!' is on my normal board. I've retyped the same scene twice now! >_<) I'd go the old-fashioned pencil and paper route but I can't scribble legibly fast enough to keep up with the flow. Think I'll go hit my head on the desk a few times then see if I can get any progress made before I crash for the night. Yeah, I have the same issue with being legible enough. And I USED to have the problem with computers crashing, but now I've got a laptop that I don't have the internet on. It works flawlessly. It's the internet that messes them up. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2014 9:07:24 GMT -5
I used to write in tablets (paper tablets, lol) but now I can't even write a sentence without my computer. I'm so trained to respond to the tapping of the keys I have no creativity whatsoever unless I'm sitting in front of my computer!
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2014 18:16:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I have the same issue with being legible enough. And I USED to have the problem with computers crashing, but now I've got a laptop that I don't have the internet on. It works flawlessly. It's the internet that messes them up. Oh, to have a laptop.... ~sigh~ Out of budget, though. I can afford slowly piecing a desktop together (especially since this one is approaching two decades old and beginning to fall apart like a zombie in the summer) but that will still take months. I've ordered a new hard drive for this ancient thing since I think that's the primary source of lag. Most certainly switching back to Ubuntu - Mint was a mistake and it would take a gun to the head to get me to go back to Windows. Ideally I'll be back to something reliable soon. For now I'm leaning on mailing chapters to myself in gmail since it has an auto-save that works more reliably than any of the word processors on the computer while simultaneously backing them up in case of a serious crash before fixing is done. -_- Still not the ideal. Still... I think I'm just a few chapters short of the first draft of my second book being done. LOL Still haven't finished edits on the first. I'm notorious for starting rather than finishing anything. |
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Post by scdaffron on May 24, 2014 9:29:10 GMT -5
I loved this clip from George R.R. Martin on Conan. I finally got around to watching this and it totally cracked me up when he talks about turning off all the automatic stuff because he knows "how to operate the Shift key." That is so me. I have every intelli-nonsense crap thing turned off in pretty much every software program I can. Stuff like that drives me nuts. No irritating squiggly red or green lines for me. I've also vowed to never, ever upgrade Microsoft Office again because it has turned into a gigantic piece of crap. I'm using Office 2003, so in 10 or 20 more years, my refusal to upgrade it won't be any different than George using WordStar |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2014 22:41:46 GMT -5
Wow. Santa Claus and Phoebe from 'Friends,' on Conan together?!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2014 11:11:56 GMT -5
I mean, it makes sense in a way. But...the man takes soooo much time in between to write his tomes. You can turn off all the auto-formatting features. I do understand writing on a machine that doesn't access the internet. But using a DOS computer??? It's funny, but man, that is scary in terms of trusting an old piece of technology. If his old DOS computer helps him from being distracted and helps him to write, then when is book 6 coming out?  ?? Or when is he going to get book 7 started? The TV show is going to catch up and surpass his own story lines! I'd hate to lose that kind of control over my work! |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2014 11:16:22 GMT -5
I mean, it makes sense in a way. But...the man takes soooo much time in between to write his tomes. You can turn off all the auto-formatting features. I do understand writing on a machine that doesn't access the internet. But using a DOS computer??? It's funny, but man, that is scary in terms of trusting an old piece of technology. If his old DOS computer helps him from being distracted and helps him to write, then when is book 6 coming out? ?? Or when is he going to get book 7 started? The TV show is going to catch up and surpass his own story lines! I'd hate to lose that kind of control over my work! Well, he is intimately involved in writing the show, too, so he's not losing any control over the storylines. But he needs to get off his ass and put out the next damn book, for sure. |
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?? Or when is he going to get book 7 started? The TV show is going to catch up and surpass his own story lines! I'd hate to lose that kind of control over my work!