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julesjonesI'm actually up to trying to type 300 words this weekend, so did so. It ended up as 400 words. :-) Taxman has gone from 27977 to 28375 words.
I've also got a possible market and some further editing suggestions for Circle of Glass, which will probably have to wait until Alex and I are available and alert at the same time. Might poke at that tomorrow, if not it's probably going to be next weekend before we can do so.
I want to try using the dictaphone function in Dragon in combination with the sound recorder in the headphones software to experiment with dictating fiction. As a general rule, I can't do this, because various things about using Dragon break my train of thought and I lose track of what I wanted to write. However, I've considered in the past using a dictaphone and then feeding into Dragon, rather than correcting recognition errors on the fly.
I never got around to it, in part because it would still probably be rather disruptive to my train of thought as far as actual editing/rewriting on the fly was concerned. I was also rather reluctant to shell out on a digital voice recorder given that they were fairly expensive at the time, at least for one good enough to use with older versions of Dragon. However, the reason I was considering it was because I get the occasional bout of having the story pretty much ready to go in my head before I ever lay fingers on keys -- and *that*, even if it was simply a chapter or scene, would be much more amenable to dictate first and correct recognition errors after.
The muse dumped a story idea on me a couple of weeks back, along with a chunk of dialogue. Some of it's going to be sitting at the keyboard staring into space, but some of it at least I could probably rattle off into a dictaphone. And the sound recorder is a good way to see if this actually works for me. Unfortunately I've been too tired since then to be able to try, because composing my thoughts and then saying them accurately requires concentration. So that's probably tomorrow's writing task, if I get a decent night's sleep tonight.
I've also got a possible market and some further editing suggestions for Circle of Glass, which will probably have to wait until Alex and I are available and alert at the same time. Might poke at that tomorrow, if not it's probably going to be next weekend before we can do so.
I want to try using the dictaphone function in Dragon in combination with the sound recorder in the headphones software to experiment with dictating fiction. As a general rule, I can't do this, because various things about using Dragon break my train of thought and I lose track of what I wanted to write. However, I've considered in the past using a dictaphone and then feeding into Dragon, rather than correcting recognition errors on the fly.
I never got around to it, in part because it would still probably be rather disruptive to my train of thought as far as actual editing/rewriting on the fly was concerned. I was also rather reluctant to shell out on a digital voice recorder given that they were fairly expensive at the time, at least for one good enough to use with older versions of Dragon. However, the reason I was considering it was because I get the occasional bout of having the story pretty much ready to go in my head before I ever lay fingers on keys -- and *that*, even if it was simply a chapter or scene, would be much more amenable to dictate first and correct recognition errors after.
The muse dumped a story idea on me a couple of weeks back, along with a chunk of dialogue. Some of it's going to be sitting at the keyboard staring into space, but some of it at least I could probably rattle off into a dictaphone. And the sound recorder is a good way to see if this actually works for me. Unfortunately I've been too tired since then to be able to try, because composing my thoughts and then saying them accurately requires concentration. So that's probably tomorrow's writing task, if I get a decent night's sleep tonight.