I will go ahead and let it be known now. I am a writer and I suck at spelling. There really should be more support groups out there for folks like me. You would think there are more that are out there. I just think that many of them are ashamed to let it be known. That might be the case. Maybe though, these folks have found the SpellBound spell checker for Firefox.

Here is what the author of the SpellBound Firefox extension had to say about it:

SpellBound is a port of the spell checker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite’s Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html text area / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements.

This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them when using your Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite browser.

The install Web page for the extension makes the process almost painless, so there is no worries about getting it onto your computer the right way. They also have a few screenshots available for you to view as well, before you put it on your machine.

So what is the moral of the story? These days it is perfectly acceptable for a writer to not be the best speller in the world. We all make mistakes, and SpellBound helps us check for those mistakes before our words are taken to the outside world.

[tags]firefox,extension,spell check,spellbound[/tags]