The first time I encountered a piece of software designed to help my writing, it was a simple spell-checker, and it was extremely popular.

Unfortunately, I found myself arguing with it more often than not. I was trying to write fantasy at the time, and I preferred the older (and in some cases, British) spelling for many words.

My friends thought I was crazy to even consider arguing with the spell-checker. Who cares how a word is spelled?

Grammar checkers were next to arrive. Hailed by ...