Writing with WordPress Write

I’m writing this post on Write, the new text composer/editor on WordPress.com. According to the official blog post, Write is a response to last year’s Creators survey, where “‘simplify the editor’ was the single most-requested improvement from the people already publishing on WordPress.com”. The tool itself was originally created by WordPress developer Jamie Marsland, with the WordPress.com team then adopting/adapting it. According to Marsland: WordPress is extraordinary software. But when you sit down to write a blog post, you’re greeted by a dashboard, a sidebar, an admin bar, a block inserter, a settings panel, and dozens of options that have nothing to do with the words you’re about to put down. For writers — especially those who aren’t developers — it’s a lot of visual noise between you and a blank page. Write strips all of that away. So far, Write looks good to me. WordPress.com ruined the writing experience when it introduced Gutenberg. Many bloggers have already commented that…