What is a Writer's Tool, it used to be Pen and Paper?

Is a computer, laptop, webcam, mic the new tools for writers?

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A decade ago, a writer’s, tools were a journal, a pen and a couple of reference books. Things have changed dramatically over the past few years. Today, a writer’s tools would include, a mobile phone for dictation, a laptop for writing on the go, a desktop for the home office, a webcam for online virtual meetings and a mic for podcasting. Have I forgotten to include anything else that a writer needs in her or his armoury?

My father, who passed away last year, still wrote his work on paper and had a large collection of scrap-books and pens. He used a computer to add the final work, once he had gone through three drafts of the piece he was composing. Dad had a typewriter, kept aside as a last resort, and it was gathering dust in the corner of his study. My father also had a lot of reference books, because Google was not always enough, and it did not provide the right answers to queries or the correct facts every time and he was right.

My writer’s toolbox, includes my books and I have a large collection, movies, which are equally large, a laptop, a desktop, webcam, mic and of course reams of paper seldom used, a few dairies and a lot of pens, also rarely used. I also use Canva and Scrivener online for my work. What do you have in your writer’s physical toolbox? Has your collection of items expanded or depleted over the years, as you have evolved as a writer?

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