I've found trying to find a distraction-free editor a distraction in itself. I'd bet money that most authors using an old word processor had some external reason to use it (cost, availability, editor compatability) and just stuck with what they know.
replyA large fantasy adventure could easily have supporting documents with cities stats, characters, races, maps etc.
replyIt could have, but George R R Martin famously uses Word Star and he surely has all that.
replyThen again he's also about a decade late with the next book
GRRM could use clay tablet and it wouldn't make any difference on his output.
replyIf you want output, Stephen King has used many processors, he doesn't care aparently as long as he can focus. Brandon Sanderson uses Word. The tool doesn't seem to matter.
My point exactly; sci-fi you even more need to refer to accurate statistics whatever they may be.
replyUnless the fleet travels at the speed of plot.
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