[onion2k]

The art/science and tech of writing should be as decoupled as possible from the tools.

There is nothing about writing that makes this automatically true, and if you look at some of the software that novelists, editors screenwriters, journalists, technical authors, etc use it doesn't really hold water. For example, Scrivener and Shotrunner are closer to databases than writing tools.

Humans have been writing for thousands of years, and modern tech tools to help have been around for about 50. It's far too early to say whether or not tools hinder the process.

[Brajeshwar]

I agree to this perspective too. Screenwriters, novelists, etc. need to keep a tap of the journey, fork, and side stories of characters and entities. The tools help them with that and not with the writing part.

Blog Articles are self-contained in most cases and are within the scope of that blob. So, most tools should be either an enabler in that writing (editors, formatters) or the aftermath -- publishing (most CMSes).