Actually, the article mentions that there is a "mini-industry of Word alternatives for novelists", and it links to an example: http://www.literatureandlatte.com

Actually, the article mentions that there is a "mini-industry of Word alternatives for novelists", and it links to an example: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html Presumably this is the kind of program the author is thinking of when he says that Word lacks features that assist composition.