I have been pondering whether it is possible to dictate a novel into a computer using some sort of voice-recognition software. I hate the idea of sitting at a computer typing away......oh how I fantasize about walking around a large room and simply pouring out fantastically deep words into a bluetooth headset.
Having never written a novel or even short story for that matter, I wonder how much editing great authors do on a particular chapter or paragraph.
Is it possible to have a chapter just pour out into a mic that is nearly perfect?
I did buy a digital dictaphone a couple of years ago thinking it would be the holy grail for writing. Instead, it was simply awful and made me so distracted because it failed to record correctly. The idea was to record my voice and then pay (yes, I was willing to pay) for a service to type up my dictations.
However, in reality, I would dictate for 5 minutes or so what I thought was surely the most profound statements ever recorded only to find that the thing was not recording at all. Oh, the anger! I had lost the world's most profound statements!
Using that as an excuse, I stopped all attempts to find the story inside me that is longing to be released.
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