George RR Martin's Secret to Writing Millions of Words and Reaching Millions of People

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George RR Martin's Secret to Writing Millions of Words and Reaching Millions of People

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How can a single person write millions of words within a few years?

George RR Martin did it.

Here you can see the number of words in his books in the Game of Thrones series:


Number of words in the books of George RR Martin – Source: Statista
Do you know what George RR Martin wrote “Game of Thrones” on?

On a 5,000 Euro MacBook?

No.

On a vintage typewriter for 17,000 euros?

No.

He uses an ancient DOS azerbaijan telegram screening computer that has no Internet connection. He uses the program Wordstar 4.0 - one of the oldest word processing programs in the world.

It looks something like this:


Word Star 4.0
Why?

You might think he's afraid of being hacked.

But in reality he only wants one thing:

No distractions.

He doesn't want to receive emails while he's busy inventing the next intrigue.

He doesn't want any spell check, any unnecessary blinking symbols, and certainly no autocorrect. "I know how to use the Shift key," Martin said in an interview. He doesn't want to be patronized by the program. This is his method for typing faster .
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