If you want to write your novel relatively quickly and productively, it should have no access to the interweb thingy, also no games, or anything other than the two aforementioned programs. If you can’t write without easy access to endless forms of procrastination, sorry, I mean, research tools, then by all means be connected to that gateway to hell the intramanet.
I was looking for more information on how to use a spreadsheet to help with plotting, and just had to share.
Someone really should disable our cable modem.