another thought on writing with voice
I'm finding it's surprisingly difficult to write with my voice. I wonder whether rather than improving my writing skills what it may actually be doing is improving my verbal skills, as I'm becoming very aware of how inefficient I am when I am describing things in particular the book summaries that I'm doing. I find myself retyping several parts of them fairly often. Perhaps this practice will have a benefit beyond my writing. What I'm finding is that when I speak I don't have a good sense of the whole thing that I'm about to say, I'm just talking off the top of my head....with no vision of what's to come, perhaps it's because I'm feeling self-conscious, partly concentrating on speaking clearl, partly concentrating on the microphone in front of me. I'm trying to say deep strong sentences rather than focusing on the whole of the thing I want to say. I am finding that my writing is probably more thoughtful when I type than when I speak it at the moment. I'm formulating ideas in my head before I say them when I type. When I speak to myself perhaps I'm doing this too but it's a problem of mine that when I public speak my mind goes blank and at the moment it's doing the same when I speak/type. II suppose this may change in time and I really hope it does because it's very very quick to type using my voice!