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Feb. 4th, 2021 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelA thing I saw on Twitter has me writing again -- fuck knows how long it's been -- but I'd forgotten how hard writing is. I don't just mean in the usual sense, though there's that too. I mean the physical act. I'd forgotten, by which I mean I'd avoided thinking about the fact that what keeps me quiet on my blog would apply doubly to stories.
I can't hand write (that's been the case for years). I haven't figured out a good way to type on a standard keyboard, so writing on the computer is done via mouse and on-screen keyboard. Slow and prone to typos. On the phone I'm faster but there's still lots of errors and autocarrot issues. And on the tablet, which I'm currently using, it's old enough that it has issues recognizing taps sometimes. Which means that I have to type basically twice as much.
For example, the opening line
actually involves this amount of key-jabbing, using \ to indicate backspace and leaving (usually auto fixed) typos un-corrected:
Truth\\uuutth is as iwuid\\\\\ lllliquid as tge\\he ovean, annnnnnnnd fwice as deceotiiive
...which is slow and frustrating and actually not good for *getting words out*.
But hey, I have the opening (checks) five paragraphs, and it only took half an hour.
I can't hand write (that's been the case for years). I haven't figured out a good way to type on a standard keyboard, so writing on the computer is done via mouse and on-screen keyboard. Slow and prone to typos. On the phone I'm faster but there's still lots of errors and autocarrot issues. And on the tablet, which I'm currently using, it's old enough that it has issues recognizing taps sometimes. Which means that I have to type basically twice as much.
For example, the opening line
Truth is as liquid as the ocean, and twice as deceptive.
actually involves this amount of key-jabbing, using \ to indicate backspace and leaving (usually auto fixed) typos un-corrected:
Truth\\uuutth is as iwuid\\\\\ lllliquid as tge\\he ovean, annnnnnnnd fwice as deceotiiive
...which is slow and frustrating and actually not good for *getting words out*.
But hey, I have the opening (checks) five paragraphs, and it only took half an hour.
Saw this on Latest Things
Date: 2021-02-05 07:23 am (UTC)- on the other hand, so to speak, I recall hearing of a guy who was completely paralyzed, inert save for his eyes - and he “dictated” a complete novel by flicking his eyes to select one letter at a time…
That's determination!
Update to add: Speaking of dictating, would a speech-to-text app help?
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Date: 2021-02-05 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-05 10:35 pm (UTC)Huzzah for a great opening line. I look forward to appreciating it as part of a story someday.