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> Interesting comments...
>
> Since I am not a "creative" writer, I can't say to much about what a
> professional author of, say novels may say. I do "create" a number of
> email messages, and have gone back and forth on using a keyboard vs Nat
> for doing those. I do notice I think more about what I am putting into
> the communication when I use a keyboard compared to dictating with Nat
> in email notes.
I have done a couple of brief "creative" pieces with Nat, and am beginning
a "creative" book. (I've already done the proposal for the
publisher, replies to readers, and so on: so I'm not
"creating" in the sense of starting straight out.)
I haven't yet found any problems that wouldn't also exist
writing using something different. I just pause to think now
and again!!
> I do remember an author posting several months ago that Nat made the
> creative process easier, because the words appeared faster and could
> more easily follow the author's speed of thinking. That person did *no*
> proofing or correcting until much later. Kind of a "first draft" kind of
> production.
Yes -- that's right. When that works, it's terrific. I shall continue to
correct and proof as I go along, though.
Writing habits and writing topics will affect views of this
way of working. I have never used abbreviations and then
expanded them (or used Search and Replace for the same purpose),
and perhaps that makes voice-work easier for me.
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Judy Evans jae2@@york.ac.uk
Typing by Dragon Systems Software.................Opinions mine
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