Recently, I’ve downloaded a dictation app on my phone to help when the ideas are just coming out of my head, but I’m in no mood to put them down on paper or am a bit busy with my hands already. I thought it would also be a good idea to practice my speech more. Because I work from home, and communication is predominantly through email, I’ve been worried that my speech is becoming more muffled than before. Of course, I have a separate voice for when I’m working or talking to people in more professional or public settings

The app is actually amazing. I still try to talk as clearly as possible, but even my computer couldn’t keep up with me like this app does, and so I’ve started doing a lot of recorded notes that are transcribed as I say them, so I’ll actually look back over them (I rarely actually go back to recordings, this being the main reason why I don’t do them anymore. I hate the sound of my own voice).

And so I’ve been writing a lot of notes using my voice this week, and it’s been fun. It helps me brainstorm a bit more freely and then translate it onto paper or into the digital world. What I’m devoting more actual writing time to is looking more at the potential of my works, thinking of something to suit the current era (or projected future) or publishing at the moment and also looking at practising cover letters and synopses. I would like to think I have a lot of great ideas, but when looking at them honestly, I don’t think a lot of them fit the current climate of reading, and I would like them to be something I publish when I’m known a little. I don’t know if that’s the wrong way to go about it, but that’s what I’m thinking about at the moment.