Experimental nonfiction

I’m beginning to wonder if writing is more the tool of the lazy thinker. Why, you ask? My new phone is giving me an identity crisis. I’ve always thought of writing as one of my strengths, but using the new speech recognition software has me questioning my assumptions. I wanted to test out the speech recognition software by speaking my blog entry instead of writing it. However, I’ve found that composing by speaking is not one of my strong suits. I’ve become very accustomed to the idea of being able to move comments around through cut-and-paste. And now I find it hard to organize my thoughts in a manner that allows me to speak them. In fact I find this torturous. There’s something about having my fingers closet hanging over the keyboard that gives my brain time to think. I don’t even know when to start a new paragraph (had to add this back in — software thought I was telling it to make new paragraph) if I’m talking. This is terrible I’m never speaking another blog again.

Maybe, though, I’m thinking I should do this as an exercise every now and again. The forced nature of having to think out my sentences ahead of time can only improve my writing ability.

If you’re a writer and you have access to voice recognition software, give it a try. I’d love to know if you found it as difficult as I did to compose something by speaking instead of writing.