Comments on: Writing Freehand http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/ living my life all over again Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: auria cortes http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-444 auria cortes Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:57:35 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-444 You'd be suprised on the amount of editing you won't have to do. Once Dragon is trained, your good. I write for a living so I trained that puppy real quick. :-) You’d be suprised on the amount of editing you won’t have to do. Once Dragon is trained, your good.

I write for a living so I trained that puppy real quick. :-)

]]> By: Doug Robertson http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-443 Doug Robertson Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:54:14 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-443 I'm glad Aaron found a Mac compatible knock-off! I agree, you've opened our eyes to the possibility of writing via speech. I'm quite certain that there would be much re-editing, but still, what a fantastic option. Might not be for everyone, but I think it would suit my style, too. Thanks auria for mentioning it. I’m glad Aaron found a Mac compatible knock-off! I agree, you’ve opened our eyes to the possibility of writing via speech. I’m quite certain that there would be much re-editing, but still, what a fantastic option. Might not be for everyone, but I think it would suit my style, too. Thanks auria for mentioning it.

]]> By: auria cortes http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-430 auria cortes Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:45:28 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-430 I started using Dragon because my neck constantly kinks due to all the writing I do. Dragon is great but you have to train it to your voice. Most people get frustrated and give up. Unless you are a really slow typist, Dragon won't help much in terms of speed typing. I started using Dragon because my neck constantly kinks due to all the writing I do. Dragon is great but you have to train it to your voice. Most people get frustrated and give up.

Unless you are a really slow typist, Dragon won’t help much in terms of speed typing.

]]> By: Aaron Crocco http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-422 Aaron Crocco Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:51:10 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-422 After re-reading this post, I really like your idea of 'writing' your books via speech and I think that can greatly help the amount of words you get out in each session. Unfortunately Dragon is Windows only. I was down about this but some awesome google searching got me to a brand new product called <a href="http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=53" rel="nofollow">Dictate</a> that licensed the Dragon engine and is built specifically for the Mac and OsX environment. It comes out next month and I think I'm going to pick it up. I'm pretty excited about this and hope I can take advantage of this cool product! After re-reading this post, I really like your idea of ‘writing’ your books via speech and I think that can greatly help the amount of words you get out in each session.

Unfortunately Dragon is Windows only. I was down about this but some awesome google searching got me to a brand new product called Dictate that licensed the Dragon engine and is built specifically for the Mac and OsX environment. It comes out next month and I think I’m going to pick it up. I’m pretty excited about this and hope I can take advantage of this cool product!

]]> By: auria cortes http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-419 auria cortes Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:00:52 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-419 Doug, a famous writer - don't remember who - said that s/he likes to write freehand because on the computer it's easy to erase sentences. Even good ones because you can't use them at the moment. With freehand, the sentences are always there because writers most likely will simply put a line through the sentence, not erase it completely. Dragon is the best. All I do is talk and that's it. Dragon does the typing. I also bought a recorder that I can talk into, hook it up to the computer, and Dragon will type what I said. This means I can write my novel on the go. It's fabulous! Doug, a famous writer - don’t remember who - said that s/he likes to write freehand because on the computer it’s easy to erase sentences. Even good ones because you can’t use them at the moment. With freehand, the sentences are always there because writers most likely will simply put a line through the sentence, not erase it completely.

Dragon is the best. All I do is talk and that’s it. Dragon does the typing. I also bought a recorder that I can talk into, hook it up to the computer, and Dragon will type what I said. This means I can write my novel on the go. It’s fabulous!

]]> By: Doug Robertson http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-418 Doug Robertson Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:04:52 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-418 Oh yeah, and that Dragon thing you mentioned???? I would LOVE that. Maybe I'm just slow, but I hadn't heard of it. I want me some of that! Thanks for pointing it out! Very excited now. Oh yeah, and that Dragon thing you mentioned???? I would LOVE that. Maybe I’m just slow, but I hadn’t heard of it. I want me some of that! Thanks for pointing it out! Very excited now.

]]> By: Doug Robertson http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-416 Doug Robertson Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:09:12 +0000 http://auriacortes.com/writing-freehand/#comment-416 Like Aaron said, pen to paper does frustrate, but at the same time, there is something (I think) lost in not at least occassionally doing so. It seems more meaningful, somehow, to see the story unfold on paper in one's own handwriting, even if it ultimately will no doubt be translated into another .doc file. I don't know. I look back at the journals I kept from many years ago, lots of notebooks, and can't imagine that they would be as meaningful to me now if they had been typed and saved to the My Documents folder on my desktop. Of course, that said, I haven't written a word by hand in a coon's age, so never mind. Like Aaron said, pen to paper does frustrate, but at the same time, there is something (I think) lost in not at least occassionally doing so. It seems more meaningful, somehow, to see the story unfold on paper in one’s own handwriting, even if it ultimately will no doubt be translated into another .doc file. I don’t know. I look back at the journals I kept from many years ago, lots of notebooks, and can’t imagine that they would be as meaningful to me now if they had been typed and saved to the My Documents folder on my desktop. Of course, that said, I haven’t written a word by hand in a coon’s age, so never mind.

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