How do you go about doing that? Right now I am writing in English what I want to say in Chinese with Google Translate and then copying and pasting the result into Skritter.

BTW: Thanks to Skritter, I can read my subject sentence. I actually am learning something.

I am using this: http://www.pinyinjoe.com/vista/vista_pinyin_setup_p2_fanti.htm

That's where Skritter tone practice is invaluable. In fact after some practice it is possible to write pretty fast

just get http://pinyin.sogou.com/ or http://www.google.com/ime/pinyin/, most people use sougou