Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.