Dictating Fiction

I love to knit, but knitting doesn’t love me. About a year ago, I developed something known as “knitter’s elbow,” which is basically the same kind of tendonitis one gets from playing too much tennis or golf. Unfortunately, elbow tendonitis makes it painful to spend hours using a keyboard or a mouse.

What’s a writer to do? When my tendonitis first flared I was on deadline for A Small-Town Bride with 20,000 words left to make my word count. Since my publisher had already given me extra time, I...