It doesn’t matter how good you are, your first drafts still suck. Consistently good writing, in reality, is a function of competent proofreading and editing. That means plenty of time working on polish.
Your level of experience doesn’t count: we’re all the same when it comes down to it. Everything you’ve put on paper needs to be checked: spelling, grammar, sentence formation, logic..you get the point. That’s why you can’t discount the innate value of software tools for better writing.
Sure, you can always perform the whole range of post-draft activities yourself. Seriously, though, how good do you think that’s going to turn out? I don’t know about you, but the last thing I enjoy is going through the same piece of writing I’ve put together three, four or five times to check it for everything that needs to be accounted for.
With a good writing software on hand, all you have to do is put your document in and gander at the results. Even though you can’t expect it to fix everything, I’m mighty confident it will shave down your revision and editing phase by half the time. As deflating as it may feel to find a program pointing out 100 different things that’s wrong with your work, imagine the alternative: having to scour the material to find all those 100 things yourself. Bad idea.
Seriously, if you want to write better and more efficiently, a writing software should be your best friend in the world.
