Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.
I have a thing for tools.
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.