Were do you write? - Page 3 - Writers Forum

quarterscot · 07-13-2007, 01:42 PM

If I'm doing a first draft, I try to map out a page or two walking home from work each day and write it up later on lying on my bed. I find it hard to come up with new ideas unless my legs are moving.

Incidentally, has Truthteller slept with everyone's mothers or something? This is about the third thread I've come across where people start laying into him/her.

eien blue · 07-17-2007, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Truth-Teller

This might be in the wrong thread.

I write everywhere and anywhere. I write while I'm doing chores and helping out my parents. I write in my head and form outlines, even before I began to type on my keyboard.

God, how I would love to be able to do that!

I also get tons of ideas when I'm doing just about anything, but if I don't write them down, they just fade away by the time I sit to type. I usually get my best ideas in the mornig, when I'm half asleep^^

Back on Topic, I write in my room while listening to music^^

The Hooded One · 07-17-2007, 07:27 PM

The strangest place iv ever written anything is probably a small mountain overlooking my home city (Mt. Mckay)(Thunder Bay, Ontario). I found it was the most peaceful place I have ever written anything.

Every once in awhile or when I have writers block I will go up there with a notebook and just write away. As for my usual place the kitchen table with a pen and paper for background. My computer desk for editing and typing out.

suzyq · 07-18-2007, 09:57 AM

I usually write either at my desk in the living room or on-the-go with my PDA. I've started to experiment with voice recognition software. I like talking and seeing the words appear on the screen without having to type a thing - it's a great time saver for me.

eien blue · 07-18-2007, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by suzyq

I've started to experiment with voice recognition software. I like talking and seeing the words appear on the screen without having to type a thing - it's a great time saver for me.

I tried that a few yars back, but I had to spend more time fixing spelling errors than anything else. It would have saved me more time just to type myself. I bet those type of programs are a lot more advanced now a days, or maybe it was my accent... who knows. I do want to give it another try though. Which programs are the best?

suzyq · 07-18-2007, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by eien blue

I tried that a few yars back, but I had to spend more time fixing spelling errors than anything else. It would have saved me more time just to type myself. I bet those type of programs are a lot more advanced now a days, or maybe it was my accent... who knows. I do want to give it another try though. Which programs are the best?

I tried an IBM software years ago and it was useless. The program couldn't keep up with me and I don't talk very fast. I'm using Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9. I was blown away by it. You can set the accent of the user (mine's australian). You do have to take the time upfront to train the software to understand your voice - it only takes 5 to 15 minutes of reading material the software provides for you. It's also worth learning the short hand commands for editing your text. What I like about it, is that it recognises what I say most of the time and if I say a word in a particular way and it gets it wrong, it's really easy to train the new word! There's even an autopunctuation command. It will only punctutate commas and full-stops but I can always go back and place in othe pucntuation, or even do this by saying it or typing it.

At the end of the day, it's only a tool for writing but one that I'm in love with at the moment cos it really does save me a lot of time. I'm a bad typer. I make more errors typing than this program does by understanding what I say.