Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in For Writers, Tech on Mar 8th, 2010
Why Write With Speech Recognition
I’ve been interested in using speech recognition for writing the first draft of a chapter for a while. I thought this would allow me to focus on the image in my mind of the scene and not on the words as they appear on the screen. I could write a first [...]
Posted in For Readers, Personal on Mar 5th, 2010
In the last year, I’ve had an opportunity to read Jeremy’s essays on Facebook. A few are posted here. Some have been gut-wrenching personal articles while others captured a thought or feeling in time. Each inspired me to do more, love more — be a better person. I was surprised when he recently announced his [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Feb 13th, 2010
I noticed recently something that doesn’t work for me as a reader that I didn’t think about as a writer: flashbacks or other devices that rearrange story time. An example, first chapter is X years before inciting incident, in order to set up a character with a given history. The rest for the story is [...]