Forget Writing Software

Every now and then someone asks me about what sort of writing software I use. The truth is that the only writing software I use is Microsoft Word. That tends to surprise people. After all, there is a whole market out there full of products that claim to help writers reach their full potential. In my opinion, though, most of those products don’t help much at all. In fact, I have the sneaking suspicion that some of them do the exact opposite.

But why do people devote so much time to choosing the ‘...