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By chance do you know of any good spell checker software's? i know grammerly is a thing but that costs money at a certain point, and i know most software's and browsers usally have one.
Whats weird is i used to write short story's when i was a kid but eventually just lost that spark, i may want to try again to write? My goal is to someday make something i can share with others, im unsure why i want that but i just do.
LanguageTool is kinda like Grammarly but it has a free plan, that includes at the very least spell and grammar checking.
The core part offering those free services is even open source, and can be installed on your PC (though the company has a reputation for decent privacy).
There are languagetool plugins for all mainstream browsers (edge/Chrome/Firefox/Safari and derivatives) email clients (Thunderbird and Outlook) and Office Suites (MSOffice, LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Apple).
Yes there is a paid version with more stuff, but the free version goes a long way.
As for spell checking, Microsoft Word, at least when it was more akin to a product, was pretty good at that. There's also LLMs if you don't have a problem with them, though I strongly suggest asking multiple ones just in case the one you ask decides to have a fever dream.
As for why wanting to make something, reminds me of the Ancient Greeks, which afaik thought immortality came from being remembered. Dunno if it'd be your case, but I find it an interesting line of thought.
Many popular writing experts say to write messy. You want to get the ideas out, even if they're ugly and imperfect, and go back later to fix the mistakes. Same can be said I suppose for any art. It's what Bob Ross used to talk about in painting. Music, you can't experiment and find what works without making some noise.