Whether you want it or not, here’s my tips and tricks for writing . . .
Turning off Spellcheck in WORD is my secret to keeping the flow from my imagination to my computer screen going during writing sessions.
Spellcheck’s little red line or suggestions are little distractions. You pound out a paragraph only to see a few lines up. You pause. You correct it. Then you try to get back to the mindset of ‘storyteller’ . . . and then it happens again because you’re trying to type as fast as you imagine.
Spellcheck is great. But it has a time and place. I know I’ll be reading, rereading, editing, and reediting my story many, many times. Sometimes, before I read a completed short story or novel draft, I turn spellcheck back on, make those corrections in one go, and then begin my reread so that the experience isn’t hindered by those corrections.
But not while I’m writing.
Never when I’m writing.
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