Your Writing App Is Ruining Your Work. WordStar Figured It Out 40 Years Ago.
Robert J. Sawyer, one of the most celebrated science fiction writers alive, still uses WordStar 7.0 β a word processor from 1992. In 2024, he archived the entire software for public download. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a manifesto about what we lost when we traded frictionless, keyboard-centric writing for bloated apps that treat users like they need constant supervision. The tools we abandoned didn’t stop working. We just stopped believing in them.