The Writer's Toolbox

This week has been all about writing here at Write on the Water.   Mike discussed the pain of revision, Tom got into the wisdom of tracking one's drafts in order to measure and learn from those various revisions, and Mike came back with his musings on why we put ourselves through this agony and ecstasy.

Now that it's my turn at bat, I've decided to lay out several categories of software that I think are essential for the Writer's Toolbox.  While I will tell you what I use, in most cases, you c...