Wow...... I knew it had been bad, but that is just terrible. Definately sounds like something that needs to be told.
A couple of ideas that might help. A wee dictaphone you can carry around so when you do think of something, or as you're planning out a section you can record it rather than having to write it down. The other is voice recognition software. If typing is not your forte and sitting for a long time in front of the computer would be a challenge, this would be perfect. Especially if you can use it in conjunction with the dictaphone. Now, I did a quick google search came across this link (not sure how old it is though).
http://www.consumersearch.com/voice-recognition-softwareIf you've got Vista on your computer it looks like it has some software included. At another link it looks like the 'Dragon' software has a newer version out, it sounds like you need to have a reasonably high spec computer to run this. The prohibiting factor here may be cost...
Good luck with your project.
