A novelist explains why he still writes books in a 1978 word processor. The thread says it's not nostalgia — it's defense (sfwriter.com)
Sci-fi novelist Robert J. Sawyer keeps writing in WordStar because its commands sit under a touch typist's fingers and it never interrupts — 'I'm in control, not the program.' George R.R. Martin and Anne Rice agreed; Rice called Word 'pure madness' beside it.
The thread reframes the appeal as distraction-defense, not nostalgia. One writer switched to a typewriter to stop staring at a screen. Another nailed it: the longing isn't for the software, it's for the quiet.
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