If the pen is mightier than the sword where does SW lie in the whole scheme of things?

Insert “pen is” joke here.

One can write devastatingly well here, but normally the words one types is more akin to a screw trying to act like chalk on a chalkboard.

That might be true. But it's the sword that often determines who holds the pen.

In the gutter asking random people for a mercy kill.

a broken pencil?