The right tools will help you write better

The right tools for writing vary from writer to writer. What works best is determined more by preference than any hard and fast rule or price tag. More than anything, they should make you want to write, and should be invisible as you do so. Any focus directed at your tools is focus not directed at your writing, where it belongs.

What is Available isn’t usually optimal

When I first started writing A Boy Named Zephyr, I wrote with whatever was available. Pencil, pen, printer paper, legal notepa...