#im gna be able to bench press my bodyweight before i can straight write a chapter at this rate

[nerice]

so sorry about the rsi! im in the same boat OTL, im not a writer but would audio/speech to text notes possibly help lessen the strain, at least with drafting? (much love)

my brother in suffering i love u and hope you are managing bc this shit sucks so bad <3

i've ofc considered this but it's not smth that works for me due to a lot of stupid factors one of which being. i am incapable of speaking about my writing which is a dumb hangup but i genuinely. don't talk abt it ever i only text, even to my partner. this extends to sitting in my dark room narrating shit into a microphone my brain does not want to do it. and it wouldn't even begin to cover issues w software (i love every forum that talks abt dragon natural speech as if that shit doesn't cost 600eu lol) recognizing character names nd fantasy place names, me being an ESL speaker with spotty pronunciation, and that genuinely. typing is faster than speaking for me. it's like two tracks and i can think while i type the ideas go from head thru hands into keyboard but speaking is '????????' i cannot think and speak at the same time. it is probably a matter of re-learning to some degree but given all the other caveats, nothing short of losing both my hands in a freak accident wld get me to consider vtt. i'd learn to type with my feet probably before i ever give speech recognition an honest try. and yeah, even then, as u said it wld only work for drafting. i'm certain other folks manage to edit via speech software somehow, and more power to them, but i'd kmys no joke there is nothing in writing for me if it's not quiet concert of mind and hands, for better and for worse.