Are you a writer?

[arjaybe]

The main tools I use to create my stories.

Fountain pen
LibreOffice Writer
writer2epub
Calibre
LibreOffice Draw / GIMP
Recorder
Audacity
Normalize-audio
SoundConverter
mp3gain

[Eadwine Rose]

Started writing technical equipment manuals in 1963 with a fountain pen,

I am SO glad that most of the writing these days is done on computers. I have never been able to write for longer periods of time and even shorter ones now just hurt too much.

Yay for keyboards as I can use those quite nicely still. Be it with breaks :)

[KBD]

I am SO glad that most of the writing these days is done on computers. I have never been able to write for longer periods of time and even shorter ones now just hurt too much.

Yay for keyboards as I can use those quite nicely still. Be it with breaks :)

I second that. Computers have been liberating for me regarding writing. Though I have written longhand, I hate to do so and avoid it whenever possible :)

[Gordon Cooper]

I graduated from fountain pen to typewriter, much to the joy of Joanna who typed the printing skins. At least she could read my drafts now.

[manyroads]

@kbd & @eadwine rose, I can hardly read my own handwriting... I agree, hooray for keyboards. On another note @eadwine rose have you tried voice to text tools to help when you hurt from typing? Here's a bit on the topic... I'm think there are people here willing to help you, if you are interested.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-li ... -software/

[Eadwine Rose]

I have tried it, on my Android phone it works rather nicely. At least I can do enough to get the writing done, but it is definitely something to keep in mind. However with the splints it does make a difference :)

[manyroads]

@eadwine rose Here's more from the Debian world on what they have ging on.
https://blends.debian.org/accessibility ... ecognition

[Gordon Cooper]

@Eadwine Rose and manyroads. I agree, voice to text is worth trying. I used it for a while when working with XP and was writing voice overs to be read by a 'professional voice' when we were making audio-visuals for training. It can be a bit frustrating at the start. many mistakes and umms.. but these are easily fixed in an editor.

[Eadwine Rose]

Thanks Manyroads.

If someone is interested in trying all that in MX, be my guest. For now I am just really happy my system runs reliably so I am not going to install too much to try out when I don't yet really need it

[richb]

I worked with a patent lawyer who used a text to speech application for patent submissions and this was several years ago.