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The main tools I use to create my stories.

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

Gordon Cooper wrote: Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:38 pm 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 :)

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:42 pm

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 :)

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.

@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/

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 :)

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

@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.

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

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