[stylist] An Introduction and newly blind questions
justin williams
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Mon Jul 15 13:58:50 UTC 2013
Absolutely. Go to one of the centers near you.
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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] An Introduction and newly blind questions
April I understand your frustration. I lost most of my sight nearly 6 years
ago, too.
I attended the Blind and Vision Rehabilitation Services in Homestead, PA.
There, I learned what worked best for me.
I ust Zoom Text, for most things. With that I can see things that I could
never see without it.
I am also a visual learner and a long time visual artist - so anything I can
do visually, I will do.
I also have JAWS, and use it to read longer things, like articles and emails
- so that works for me quite well.
I hope you look into training at a center where you are in-residence and get
full time help in learning what is best for you. They also set up your
systems so you don't have the kind of problems you are experiencing. I am
getting all my equipment updated beginning next week, and will learn how to
use JAWS on the internet.
As a visual learner, you will want to use your sight for everything you can
possibly use it for, I imagine.
Lynda
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From: "April Brown" <aprilbrownwrite at gmail.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 9:13 AM
Subject: [stylist] An Introduction and newly blind questions
> Hello,
>
> I am a writer who has been writing for several years. I'm no
> longer waiting to be chosen by agents after querying over 60 in the
> last years for the start of an unexpected series. I intend to self
> publish the series, I am thinking one every six months (4 of six books
> are mostly complete and three are in edits). The first will be
> published mid December, likely through Smashwords.
>
> I am also newly legally blind. I have had three massive
> unexplained bouts of vision loss since November. This last one, this
> last weekend has left grey and light blue items with a lavender tint.
> Fonts that were easy to read a month ago now look spidery.
>
> I need help choosing the best options as a blind writer.
>
> I've tried Dragon. It offered to uninstall Windows for me. After
> up to 9 hours of training, I can get it to work at about 20% accuracy
> for about an hour at a time. By third use, it crashes my computer and
> I have to spend a day reformatting it. I've even tried it on three
> different computers.
>
> For a screen reader, I have tried NVDA. I can get it to read one
> paragraph at a time in Word or Outlook. It crashes Firefox.
>
> My vision is so foggy many days, I can barely see the computer
> screen, and editing is a nightmare.
>
> What suggestions can you offer for a writer who learns visually,
> and can no longer see enough to work easily?
>
> April Brown
>
> Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.
>
>
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> 1. Member looking for a Collaborative Writing Partner
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> 2. moving (Eve Sanchez)
> 3. Re: moving (Robert Leslie Newman)
> 4. Re: Introducing Myself and Blogging with JAWS (Homme, James)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:46:40 -0500
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
> To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] Member looking for a Collaborative Writing Partner
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> Dear you all,
>
> RE: Member is looking for a writing partner:
>
>
>
> Robert, Can you put out a request for someone to collaborate on a play
> I'm writing. It doesn't have to be someone from New Jersey as we can
> talk via phone and use e mail. They can contact me by phone
> 908-725-9044 or by e mail classemt at aol.com. in subject line writers
> division. thank you. Angela Perone
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
>
> Personal Website-
>
> Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment
>
> http//www.thoughtprovoker.info
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> NFB Writers' Division, president
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> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net
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> Chair of the NFB Communications Committee
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:25:59 -0700
> From: Eve Sanchez <3rdeyeonly at gmail.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] moving
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> Robert and all, I am moving tomorrow. I will not be online for a bit
> so if anyone needs to get a holdf me; my number is (208) 339-2430. I
> do not know my address yet, or I should say, I do not remember it. I
> will let you all know when I am able and will call you, Robert, so
> that you hopefully do not send anything out to this Cottonwood
> address. Hope I notified in time, but finally got word today. Hope
> everybody stays well. Blessed Be. Eve
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:07:49 -0500
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] moving
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> Okay Eve ---working on the adult winners today. I'll wait for your
> next message from your new address.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eve
> Sanchez
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 11:26 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] moving
>
> Robert and all, I am moving tomorrow. I will not be online for a bit
> so if anyone needs to get a holdf me; my number is (208) 339-2430. I
> do not know my address yet, or I should say, I do not remember it. I
> will let you all know when I am able and will call you, Robert, so
> that you hopefully do not send anything out to this Cottonwood
> address. Hope I notified in time, but finally got word today. Hope
> everybody stays well. Blessed Be. Eve
>
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> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:29:07 +0000
> From: "Homme, James" <james.homme at highmark.com>
> To: "stylist at nfbnet.org" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Introducing Myself and Blogging with JAWS
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> Hi Henry,
> I know of a blind blogger who uses a plug in for WordPress called
> MarkDown.
> MarkDown is a sort of textual formatting scheme that allows you to use
> symbols in your text. The plug in reads your blog posts as someone
> reads your site and when it sees the formatting marks, turns them into
> HTML. You write the text and put the formatting marks in it. The plug
> in stores your text in the WordPress database with your MarkDown
formatting in it.
>
> Here is the page that talks about all of this.
> http://www.vocalbranding.com.au/these-are-a-few-of-my-favourite-themes
> -and-a
> ccessible-wordpress-plugins/
>
> Here is the page written by the maintainer of the MarkDown formatting
> language. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/.
>
> Speaking of HTML, I feel that if you want to use HTML, that you need
> to turn off the normal editor WordPress uses, so that you can read the
> HTML mark-up.
> Mark-up is another term for formatting.
>
> As for learning HTML, if you want to do that, and you use a blogging
> platform such as Blogger and WordPress, you can get away with starting
> with a small subset of HTML. MarkDown, though, would probably be a
> good way to go because it covers most of what you would use as a
> writer, in my humble opinion.
>
> I'm starting to play around with WordPress myself. I'd be glad to
> share what I learn with anyone who wants to talk about it on this
> list. And while my coffee is flowing through my veins, if anyone wants
> to have a look at the site I'm using to play with WordPress, and
> please feel free to send me material privately, visit
> http://www.popciclejokes.com/. Note that the site address is
> misspelled. That joke is on me, because I can't change the domain name
> unless I want to buy a new one, which I don't. <grin>.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
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> 3. Re: also new on the list (Bridgit Pollpeter)
> 4. introducing myself, and blogging with JAWS (Henry Macphillamy)
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> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:41:04 -0500
> From: Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com>
> To: Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] also new on the list
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> Hey! My name is Sophie Trist, and I'm also new to the list and to the
> writers' division. I'm sixteen years old, and I've loved to write ever
> since I was a little kid. I love anykind of writing, but my passion is
> fantasy.
> Right now, I'm working on getting my first book published. I'm still
> in the early stages, but it's coming along! I look forward to getting
> to know all of you!
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> Yours sincerely,
> Sophie
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> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:24:39 -0700
> From: Vejas <alpineimagination at gmail.com>
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> Hi Sophie,
> My name is Vejas, and I'm also 16. Actually, I remember you from
> Braille challenge and the NABS list. Also, quite a while back I saw
> your review for the book Louisiana's Song in Stone Soup.
> We share writing and have discussions about various things related to
> writing.
> I can't really tell you what I'm working on, because I'm kind of
> having writer's block.
> Vejas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com
> To: Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:41:04 -0500
> Subject: [stylist] also new on the list
>
> Hey! My name is Sophie Trist, and I'm also new to the list and to the
> writers' division. I'm sixteen years old, and I've loved to write
> ever since I was a little kid. I love anykind of writing, but my
> passion is fantasy. Right now, I'm working on getting my first book
> published. I'm still in the early stages, but it's coming along! I
> look forward to getting to know all of you!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Sophie
>
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> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:13:44 -0500
> From: Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
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> Welcome Sophie. Great, another fantasy lover! I admire your ambition.
> I'm 32 with a degree in creative writing, and I'm finally working on a
> novel. I've written short stories, nothing longer than 30 pages, and
> lots of personal essays, but this will be my first attempt at a novel,
> at least a disciplined attempt.
>
> Look forward to seeing you on the list. Would love to read something
> of yours.
>
> Bridgit
>
>
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> Trist
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:41 AM
> To: Stylist
> Subject: [stylist] also new on the list
>
>
> Hey! My name is Sophie Trist, and I'm also new to the list and to the
> writers' division. I'm sixteen years old, and I've loved to write ever
> since I was a little kid. I love anykind of writing, but my passion is
> fantasy.
> Right now, I'm working on getting my first book published. I'm still
> in the early stages, but it's coming along! I look forward to getting
> to know all of you!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Sophie
>
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> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:15:35 +1000
> From: Henry Macphillamy <henry.macphillamy at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [stylist] introducing myself, and blogging with JAWS
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> Hi all,
> My name is Henry, and I'm a Braille and JAWS user from Australia. I
> was googling for resources on blind writers, and this list was one of
> the first hits that popped up.
> I've been writing a blog at:
> http://www.macphillamysmusings.wordpress.com
> I know absolutely nothing about editing html, and have been writing my
> entries on my Braille Sense, or with Microsoft Word, and then copying
> and pasting when I think they're publishable.
> I'm wondering if there are any bloggers out there who use JAWS, and if
> so, how on earth do you do it? which blogging sites are most
> accessible? and how do you deal with the presentation side of
> things... bulleted lists, embedding links, etc etc. any tips, advice
> and or other resources would be very much appreciated.
> I would really like to make my entries more professional looking, as
> well as embed links to other posts, articles and such.
> If you want to contact me off list, my email is:
> henry.macphillamy at gmail.com
> Cheers, Henry
>
>
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