Charlie StrossInterview
Novelist, recovering software developer
Adapted from Charlie Stross's interview on Uses This, published 27 February 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
(My first was a Macintosh LC, back in 1991.) The main desktop system is a late 2010 MacBook Air 13", 4Gb/256Gb SSD, running Lion.
It sits on a rather eccentric 1970s Scandinavian folding writing bureau/desk, half-submerged under heaps and drifts of stuff (headphones, mice, bits of paper, USB sticks -- the usual office debris), in front of a second hand Aeron chair.
Communication
Productivity
I hate, loath, and despise Microsoft Office.
Unfortunately publishers these days expect you to hand in a Microsoft Word .doc file.
Browser
Coding & Development
That's when I reach for Scrivener, a writer's tool which is to novels as an IDE is to software development.