GADGET GURU
Q GRAHAM LEAWORTH, ISLE OF SHEPPEY
What gadgets do I need to get my novel written?
A Bearded lollygagger George RR Martin famously spends his time gawping at the walls of his home office, pretending to write the next A Song of Ice and Fire book while sat in front of a DOS computer running 1987’s WordStar 4.0. Guru writes with, depending on his platform, tangentially archaic software that pushes everything but the words out of the way; on Windows it’s WriteMonkey, on Mac he goes for BBEdit. He has heard of novelists writing full books on their phones (try JotterPad, free with IAPs), and technophobes hand-writing every word of their memoirs.
The important thing
