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Writing Routines
They Are All Unique
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Individuals with disabilities often have unique patterns of writing, and those patterns are often dictated by their physical limitations. Some people write better in complete silence, some people write better with music or television playing in the background, I am in the latter category. Some people may need special accommodations such as special chairs, screen readers, or other things to accommodate their specific needs, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
A blind author asked me to post a post on her blog remotely about some years ago, before remote work was all that common. She used Jaws to send me the post. Her story still touches me to do so to this day, and in fact she wrote a beautiful review on a couple of my books, which I emailed to her again, and she was able to read with her screen reader, and she was able to post the Amazon reviews on the books as a result.
Obviously, her routine was different from mine, but it was no less important, and this routine helped her meet her needs, just as mine helps me.
