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Greetings, O alien from another reality:

I don't know squat about writing, so perhaps this is incredibly rude or personal, and if so, I apologize.

[[ That's what you say before asking a rude and personal question. Right? I'm pretty sure that's right. ]]

So, how do you work? That is: fingers whizzing at the keyboard? Speech to text? I've seen a few homophone errors (i.e., affect/effect) that seem like the kind of thing a speech recognition thingy would get wrong, but that a human typing would not. Still, maybe that's the kind of error your fingers might make while your brain is in the fevered grip of the Muse. Also, I don't think I've seen a single there/their/they're error, which I'd expect from speech software.

Speech-to-text seems appealing, but … all that punctuation. Still, I've never tried anything like that (apart from my phone), so maybe professional-level systems have that sorted out.

Cheers,
--Bob

I type. Generally about 10,000 words a day or more on writing days.

As for errors... yes, I know. I'm working on that. Part of the issue is that people read the errors in books that I wrote years ago, sometimes with a hundred complete novels between then and now, so they aren't always seeing my best work.

Then again, I have to admit that I'm not perfect at all, so even on new works, things still slip through that way. No matter how much editing is done.