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My First Foray Into Dictation
I’ve heard stories about how some authors double their word count by using dictation and I wanted to try it out.
There are countless different apps you can use. At the time, I had only heard of Dragon.
I wasn’t about to spend money on a program that I wasn’t sure I was going to use or not, so I chose one of the free apps in my app store.
It’s a simple voice recorder, which you can also choose to transcribe. Since this was all brand new to me, I wanted to simply record, and then do the transcription myself.
I don’t think I could ever get the hang of saying things like open quotes, period, new line. To me, I think that would be way distracting from my story and break up the flow. Perhaps some day I will try it.
I had also heard that being out in nature and active keeps your creativity high, so I grabbed my phone and took a walk. Here’s how it went.
Mistake #1: I had no story idea in mind. The first ten minutes of my walk was trying to figure out what I wanted to write about. When some little idea formed, I…