![]() (Actually I quite like the idea of Flaubert working at a mill.) Jane Austen didn't need (spit) "writing software" to write Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!Īnd why, that Dostoyevsky/Flaubert/Tolstoy was written with cold gravel on a paper bag while the author was working twenty-nine hours down at t'mill. At some point, however, in the writerly discussion equivalent of Godwin's law, there will come the inevitable growl: They then get some helpful replies, pointing to Word alternatives, or to software like our own. Someone asks what software other writers use or recommend. Such exchanges often take the following form. But there is a truth here, even if it can't be pinpointed to age, and it's one I run into occasionally when I see our writing software discussed in writers' forums. ![]() I am tempted to use this as an explanation for my immunity to the charms of the iPad, but my mother, who will be a septuagenarian next month and won't thank me for saying so, loves the thing, so I know that really age has nothing to do with it and I'm probably just an early-onset curmudgeon. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
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