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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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What on earth is speech to text software? Don't make me google it ... tell me in Very Short Words with no mention of interface. Because I really don't like the word interface.
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: In the foothills of nowhere...
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Very simply, it is a program that takes your spoken word (from a microphone, of course) and then types what you speak. In short, dictation software.
550 words from me tonight. All world building and outlining for a novella.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Doc, I would have LOLed if you'd worked the word interface in there.
![]() For those of you who haven't been subject to my speech emails, it does stuff like type "Dave! I'm so excited for Jews! He got an ace in the west." instead of "Yay! I'm so excited for Jude! He got an A on his test." It's... a challenge to read emails from me, but apparently more amusing than sending them... |
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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I was going to say "from a microphone interface" but I was in a good mood.
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western New York State
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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We used to collect some of Dragon's really weird things at work. One thing came out as 'his quintic stayed lustily' which I think was supposed to be 'it's going to stay blustery', and there are always lizard-like conditions over the Cairngorms. Some very rude ones as well that thankfully I caught before they went out as subtitles.
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Lost in mental space.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Someplace else.
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Maybe we need to come up with a translation manual so the reader is both entertained and understands.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ohio
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My September goals are to:
1) Write every day, at least 500 words, be they on a story, a blog post, a critique for another writer, or some combination thereof. 2) Write 15,000 words of fiction across at least four stories. 3) Take all of my August stories which have not yet gone through Beta/critique through Beta/critique and make appropriate revisions. 4) Stick to my planned Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday blogging schedule. Oh, and not go crazy. That's on my to-do list, as well.
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My Overall Publication History. I can be found on Twitter and My Writing Blog Most recent publication: "Back to School" (Plasma Frequency, February 2013)
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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Hey Everyone! Sorry to see I'm not alone in having an unproductive August.
I've sort of been out of commission with back-to-school dominating both my work life and my home life. I had a strong writing block for about three weeks and only started writing again a week ago. In the meantime I read a few good ones, just recently started Shea's Keeper of the Dream. Reading it over my lunch breaks at work. For September I'm going to do the assignments on my own M/T/S Boot Camp blog that I wrote in May. I know it's weird to follow your own blog, but I'm homeschooling and working at night and have to focus my writing time--and I know it's written in my style. Question for y'all: (edited out - decided I knew the answer already)Lucie
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Plotting murder..most of the time
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ontario
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(talking about me lol)Still working on edits but am about halfway through JUSTIFIED at this point. Ironic, months ago I hated editing, now I'm enjoying it. I love polishing my MS.
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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![]() I finally decided to do a few small projects, a short story and a couple of novellas, so that I could get something done.
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Lost in mental space.
Join Date: Oct 2006
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I typed up 3,000 words of handwritten scenes today. Will have to go back later to fill them in, but the typing is helping me get a sense of how far along I am and what order the scenes should go in (I haven't been writing them in order).
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ohio
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I've managed to knock out about a third of goal #1 (the 15,000 words of new fiction) this weekend. Need to spend more time going back to August's writing and doing that editing thing...
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My Overall Publication History. I can be found on Twitter and My Writing Blog Most recent publication: "Back to School" (Plasma Frequency, February 2013)
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Crumpled!
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northern Virginia
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Hi, mhaynes, welcome to the thread!
I got about 300 words today, not bad considering I've got my voice back and am expected to speak to hubby again. ![]() Also, way way out of the blue this weekend I got a request for a full on the novel I have long since given up on. It feels nice! |
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Impulsive Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Silicon Valley
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Good luck on the full request, Jilly!
I'm back in revising mode. I'm taking this week off from work, so my short-term goal is to get through this revision pass of "Shapes and Formalities". So far I've read through the current draft and identified some of the trouble areas, plus I think I have a way to tighten up the beginning. Getting out my standard revision tool now:
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Weave a web of words and trap the unwary on the stickiness of meaning. WIP: Shapes and Formalities (Gamma): In revision. Working on the query letter... NaNoWriMo 2012: Taunting the Phoenix, Part 2/Abyss
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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1,842 for me today. Debating whether to call it a night or do another wee bit before bed.
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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420 words in a blog post. What I call "support writing", alas, no real writing.
Hope others are moving and shaking along.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Congrats on forward progress for everyone!
My little experiment didn't go well. I hand-wrote about 2 pages of outline-y type stuff and my wrist didn't work for the rest of the day. Plus I just can't get ahold of the new characters and what they're up to...
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Lost in mental space.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Someplace else.
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
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No new words for me. Still going over page edits and fighting with MS Word styles thing as far as chapter heading on the first page going in the right spot after a page break. Errr. |
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
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Thanks, ladies. Sorry for the whining. I was feeling sorry for myself. Today is a new day!
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Plotting murder..most of the time
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ontario
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Great attitude HJ
322 words for a new scene, and 81 single-spaced pages to go with editing JUSTIFIED.
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
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1200 words yesterday and I'm about to start for today. New book, a couple new characters, and the first day of school went great!
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Lost in mental space.
Join Date: Oct 2006
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I wrote a scene! I was beginning to wonder if that was possible anymore.
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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Hugs for HJ.
![]() Nothing last night, but I got a few bits of plot sorted on the rewrite. Just can't get a handle on that story any more though, I don't know what's wrong with it, it's just not gripping me and making me desperate to write it any more. It's become kind of an intellectual thing with no kind of passion in it, if that makes any sense. Hope it's just temporary because I did put a hell of a lot of work into that MS for it to be a total waste of time.
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