General advantages are obvious to anyone who owns one.
Here, we will talk about less obvious use of computers in writing, and art in general. My experimentation in the field began with a set of MS Word macros. Quite unsophisticated programmatically, they performed such tasks as doubling or tripling the selection. As I had anticipated, this experimentation resulted in text that sounded quite unique, and thus interesting to me. First, each of the authors wrote two distinct segments, and forwarded to the other two.