Sometimes I wish there was a device that could hook up to your brain and record certain thoughts into a word document.
For a week now I’ve been trying to work through a point in my book that sounds works out well in my mind, but when I go to type it the results are terrible.
Has that ever happened to you?
I think about how to write certain parts of my story when I’m making dinner. I work out dialogue when I’m driving in my car… which people outside my car probably think I’m some crazy woman shout at myself while making weird faces… but whatever.
I spend more time planning out my story, or continuing my story when I’m not in front of the keyboard. Some of my best ideas are when I’m not in front of my laptop staring blankly at the Word document open before me. I type out what I can on my phone… but still what I hear in my head is always better than the things I write down.
All I’m saying is – can someone invent that machine please? I’m sure there are plenty of people who would pay big money for such a tool.
Thanks. 🙂
January 19, 2016 at 7:12 am
Amen brother….a-fing-men.
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January 19, 2016 at 12:46 pm
Dictaphone!
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January 19, 2016 at 2:27 pm
Then you have to transcribe it. XD
I’m lazy…
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January 19, 2016 at 2:35 pm
Sorry Dictaphone already writes the words out… No transcribing needed. XD silly me.
The issue with dictaphones in regards to me is the fact they don’t fully work. I have a slight speech impediment which makes those things more work to use.
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January 19, 2016 at 2:56 pm
Ha, I was only being facetious, to be honest. But, in terms of getting ideas down, it’s probably your best bet (even if it means transcribing). At least you’ll have safeguarded the idea!
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January 19, 2016 at 3:17 pm
Good point. I already sort of do that with my notes on my phone. Whenever I get an idea I type it out.
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January 19, 2016 at 3:38 pm
My girlfriend gets annoyed with me at night because I’ll get an idea when we’re falling asleep and suddenly there’s this beaming glow of a phone screen hovering above her head while I type some weird shit I just thought up. But you’ve got to get that stuff down, right?
I need to take my phone into the shower too. That would be perfect.
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January 19, 2016 at 4:03 pm
I feel your pain. I pull the same stuff and poor Mr. Canuck just grumbles about it. But, you’re right. You write it or you lose it.
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January 19, 2016 at 5:19 pm
Haha, I think about this all the time! I wish there was some way to just magically transcribe the scenes in my head using the most beautiful language in the world. Everything seems anti-climatic when I actually get it down on paper. 😛
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January 19, 2016 at 11:38 pm
THIS! Yes, this! It totally have this. Plot twists come to me when I’m driving. Full dialogue scenes run through my head while I’m trying to fall asleep. (I don’t cook so that’s not an opportunity), but it really does come at the worst times! Reasons why I always have my phone on me. It keeps all of my notes for my novels and I scribble them down as quickly (and incoherently) as possible.
But really though. I don’t want a hook-up to my brain, but being able to say all my thoughts would be cool… Though I’d need to learn to say them out loud rather than running them silently through my head.
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January 20, 2016 at 1:07 am
True, a hook-up to my brain sounds like the book Feed…
I like the ideas of dictating my thoughts out loud but I’ll run into the same issue as you… as I normally don’t share my thoughts aloud unless I’m completely alone… which I’m only alone in the car when driving to work. XD
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January 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm
A hook-up to my brain just reminds me too much of ‘Sword Art Online’. *shudders*
Haha! Even when I’m driving my car and am completely alone, I generally don’t say my thoughts aloud, but I think I dictate my thoughts in scene format. Like I see the scene playing before me, rather than think the words. You know? You think and speak differently. Gosh. Am I making any sense?
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January 24, 2016 at 11:04 pm
SAO is a great show!
Also yes, you are making sense. Speaking doesn’t always flow as well as thinking the scene out in your head. Things move quicker when you think them rather than speak them… you can get hung up when you speak something more often…
Now am I making sense? XD
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January 24, 2016 at 11:11 pm
I love SAO! I’m still trying to find time to watch season 2, but I LOVED season one.
And yes! You’re making total sense. I think we’re on the same page. :p But that’s why having to speak my writing for my novel just wouldn’t work at all! 0.0
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January 24, 2016 at 11:42 pm
I’m all caught up on the SAO series… are you watching it through Crunchyroll or other means? 🙂
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January 25, 2016 at 12:29 am
It’s all up on Netflix actually. ^.^
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January 25, 2016 at 1:05 am
Oh, they updated it? The last I checked they only had season one.
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January 25, 2016 at 1:43 am
Well, technically they added it as SAO II. So, it didn’t add to the original show for some reason…
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January 25, 2016 at 2:28 am
Ah. That explains it.
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