Of course our standards are not just “to write faster, easier, and more”; that’s quite obvious. But using a computer, for a writer, is far from being just a matter of speed & quanity. Many people find that writing in Word processor gives you a kind of freedom of expression which you could not enjoy writing by pencil. It involves another vision of text – you can split and extend, change, cut, paste, revert to a previous version or just delete the whole thing altogether more easily, and evaluation of the text is more immediate.

That’s different from paper-and-pencil method — not because it is faster, but because it makes you pay more attention to the content, as you are no longer concentrated on the physical process of writing.