I work an
hour and a half drive away from home, see, so even though I only have to go to campus
twice a week, I’m in the car for six hours a week commuting to and from my classes.
If I could spend even a small portion of that time “writing,” I would bump my
productivity up immensely.
So last
week I downloaded Dragon Dictation. The first day, I had trouble trying to get
my mind into writer mode. I’m so used to typing as part of my process that I
think my mind almost has a Pavlovian response to sitting in front of the
computer and opening a document to write. Speaking the story out loud just wasn’t
doing it for me, and I ended up just deleting the barely coherent crap I came
up with.
But I
refused to give in so quickly. Six freakin’ hours a week, I kept telling
myself. Six hours to myself, without my little girl climbing all over me. It
would be the perfect time to write.
So I tried
again the next day I had to go to campus. I waited until a sentence formed in
my mind—that’s usually the way I begin any writing session—and I turned on the
app and just started going for it. I “wrote” for the rest of the drive to
campus and ended up with about 1000 words to add to my novel, words I feel
pretty good about, too. Of course, I’m still in the very early stages of trying
this out, but I’m going to keep at it, and I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say
that this is going to help me write way, way, way more.
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