Category: Writing

Turn off the spell checker… temporarily

When word-processing a long document, turn the spellchecker off at the start. This may seem counter-intuitive, however, it frees you from the ‘red squiggle of doom’ and allows you to simply form your words on paper and focus on recording your fabulous ideas.

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writing, pen

Fast, Bad, Wrong

“Write fast, write bad, and write wrong. Terrible style, terrible grammar, terrible word choice, wrong facts, and that liberates you. That liberates you to follow

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OpenDyslexic font

Fancy fonts

OpenDyslexic and Dyslexie are fonts which are developed specifically for dyslexic people. OpenDyslexic is a good place to start as it is a free download

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Emojis

Emojis!

Yes, the good old emoji. They’re not only a good way of illustrating your text messages without using words that may or may not be

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mac, freelancer, macintosh

Google it!

Misspelling a word in any word processing programme can be frustrating when you cannot find the correct spelling. Spell checkers are getting better but sometimes

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