Writing Tools for the 21st Century
The tools writers need are changing. And I don't just mean AI, although that's coming too. Writing is becoming less about how you do it and more about having the guts to do it.
Everyone with a computer and access to the Internet has far better tools than the best writers had only a few decades ago. You can turn an idea into a best-selling novel with just a laptop — from writing the first draft to collecting royalties. You can share your ideas with an audience of thousands from your phone. You don't need anyone's permission. Why don't more people take advantage of that?
The challenges that writers face changed too. It can be difficult to find the discipline and mental space required to write when you're surrounded by push notifications on your phone, your wrist and, pretty soon, projected directly onto your retinas. When you can change a tab and watch every movie ever made. It's your brain against an algorithm designed to exploit its every weakness to make you scroll down a little further.
We have the tools to organise our notes and fix our grammar. But what about the things that writers are struggling with in 2021?
