The Joys of Word Processing

My hunch is that using a word processor makes writing more like sculpting in clay. Because it's so easy to revise, one begins by hacking out a rough draft which is then iteratively reshaped – cutting bits out here, adding bits there, gradually licking the thing into some kind of shape.

That is what John Naughton thinks in "Has Microsoft Word Affected the Way We Work? and is actually exactly what I've long thought — that very same metaphor, in fact, of sculpting because that is what it feels...