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What creativity needs most of all is time for the mind to percolate, to mix old ideas together in new ways, and to find connections no one else has found. For this the mind must be left to itself.
A look at the retro text editors and Web applications that more and more writers are using to roll back the reach of new media.
Today, it seems that we have access to an unlimited amount of information all the time, and for those of us who want to be alone with our thoughts, that information is getting harder and harder to avoid. More and more of us suffer from a condition sometimes called "digital information overload," or "infomania."
An author makes what many would consider the ultimate professional sacrifice in the name of writing and rediscovers how to spend his time offline.
