| Hi Bernice! Overall, we're a fairly quiet group, but I do know if you check the old messages, there's been a lot of great suggestions shared. I also posted a couple of tips that really help me on my website a couple of months ago. I'll copy them below. I had the surgery for CTS Release and it didn't help a lick, so I strongly recommend checking out physical therapy or any other exercises you can do that will strengthen your hands and arms in general, and agree with your doctor about cutting back. Every individual has their own "tolerance" level that they can write to without pain, or at least with manageable pain. The trick is finding yours so you can keep writing without harming your body! I wish you the best of luck. :-) Larissa NEW WRITING TIPS Actually, these are the first writing tips ever, but I guess they still qualify as being new. :-) As an author dealing with a disability, I thought I'd share a couple of my best writing tips—tricks of the trade, that allow me to write and keep the voices in my head from bubbling over! Dragon NaturallySpeaking—dictation software. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be able to write my stories at all. Typing is out of the question due to pain and swelling, but when everything is working as it should (thanks to Mr. Lyons!...yes, my dear spouse is used to responding to the occasional "Help! It's not recognizing my words" pleas for assistance and fortunately, he's very good at keeping everything operating in top shape) I "talk" my story and characters into the computer. This software has made significant strides over the years. I've been using it since 1996 and the recent versions have come along tremendously, only I still have to teach it all of the "naughty" words! R.S.V.P. fine point pens by Pentel—the best pen I've ever used, bar none. Granted, I've never tried truly expensive pens, but I wasn't able to write more than a sentence or so with Bic and the like, and for several years I despaired of ever being able to write letters, much less chapters, again. Then I discovered this wonderful writing instrument. It fairly glides over the pages. I write almost every bit of my stories longhand and then dictate from spiral-bound pages. --- On Mon, 6/30/08, bwakefied <bwakefied@...> wrote: From: bwakefied <bwakefied@...> |
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