"Badminton" + "Joanie" + "a Talking Cat"

Microsoft Word can sometimes feel like the place where creativity goes to die. Its icons evoke the wan cubicle world of '90s office culture: impassive clipboards, boring scissors, a squat dour printer. (And don't get me started on Google Docs.) Word's corporate vibe makes it a less-than-ideal sanctum for novel writing, or really any kind of imaginative writing, and perhaps that's why a new crop of apps has emerged to help today's underserved Woolfs and Melvilles find literary greatness.