Why Microsoft Word Might Be the Secret Weapon New Writers Have Been Overlooking

Why Microsoft Word Might Be the Secret Weapon New Writers Have Been Overlooking

Like mastering any skill, becoming a great writer takes discipline, focus, intentionality, and hours upon hours of practice.

  • Scrivener may be a wonderful tool for dividing up book chapters and helping you organize information, but it is not going to put your butt in the chair and help you bang out those words.
  • Vellum may be a wonderful tool for formatting, but it is not going to hammer out chapter after chapter until your plot holes are full.
  • While Grammarly may spot potential errors for you, it will not wake you up early before work so you can write and keep you up late at night until the manuscript is finished.

This is what Collins means when he says technologies should be used as an accelerant, not a momentum creator. If you aren’t already putting in the hard work to be the kind of writer you want to be, it doesn’t matter what new writing software you invest in. It is not going to help.

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