Cooking up Content at the speed of talk - In the kitchen

Today a new voice recorder arrived by UPS on my doorstep. It's an RCA RP5130 512MB MP3 recorder. 

I like it a lot. For $45 it has a lot of nice features that are normally found on more expensive models.

For example, file editing features

With this RP5130 you can play back a file that you've created earlier and select a passage of the recording that you want to remove. Just click a few buttons, and that passage is deleted while leaving the rest of the file intact.

Or, you can insert a new chunk of voice dictation right in the middle of a previously recorded file.

Anyway, I bought this thing because I've been having writers block lately. It's like any time I sit in front of a computer with an empty word document, my hands sitting on the keyboard as I'm staring at an empty text document, I get this 'mind blankness'.

"It's writer's block!"

I've got all the software that writing might require, a nice sized 24" screen to see all the words I might type - everything that might be beneficial in writing articles - but then my mind goes blank. It feels like work.

So I figured, "What's a more natural way of communicating compared to typing words?"

"Talking is!"

That's pretty much the reason I ordered a voice recorder - to write more naturally.

So here I am, in my kitchen, walking in circles around the center island - just writing this article exactly as I want to say it. My flow of thought is not limited by the speed I type. I type fast, but like anyone - I think (and talk) faster.

It's pretty amazing. Well, actually not. It's liberating.

I've written several articles today in precisely this manner.

And you know what? More than ever I can appreciate the difference between the written and the spoken word. For me, the spoken word just comes out as seeming more "personal". Maybe some people can write like they talk, but for me the best way to write like I talk is to just - talk, and then transcribe it.