George Martin's secret to productivity

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Author of the popular novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, George Martin shared his secret to being productive. It's all about the computer and the program.

The name of George Martin is on everyone's lips. And not surprising. In addition to wonderful books, many people know him from the TV series "Game of Thrones", which is based on the cycle of his novels "A Song of Ice and Fire".

I think many have read these books, and therefore know how great each of them is. Each novel is roughly 1,000 pages long, and making a book of this size, good or bad, is an incredibly difficult task. In his recent interview on the popular American show Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he shared the secret of his productivity.

Here's what he says:

I have two computers: the first one I use for the Internet, mail, paying bills and so on. The second one is exclusively for writing books. This is an old DOS computer that has no Internet access.

To write his books, Martin uses 4.0, a DOS utility for writers that was popular in the 1980s. Wordstar has long ceased to exist officially. However, if you want to try it and wake up the hidden writer within you, you can find many ways to download and install this program.

Why does George Martin use such antediluvian software and hardware?

This program does everything I need. Modern text editors constantly get in where they don't need to and try to help. I do not need help. I hate programs that fix lowercase letters to uppercase. If I need a capital letter, I'll put it in. Don't do it for me. I know how "Shift" works.

Perhaps this is not so bad. I decided to see what the names of the main characters would turn into, thanks to the auto-correction. Instead of Daenerys - "degrade", instead of Lannister - "Autumn erased." Brrr.

You should not run headlong and install outdated software, hoping to immediately become a cool writer. Still, Martin's thought about minimalism and the separation of work and play is not devoid of logic. What do you think?