Readers discussed the varied writing and typesetting pipelines used by tech-savvy fiction writers, from Vim, Scrivener, and troff to Google Docs, Markdown, Git, Emacs, and Typst, while joking that tinkering with such setups can become procrastination. The thread also touched on George R.R. Martin’s WordStar routine, the value of established workflows, and debates over epic worldbuilding versus tighter short fiction.