I ended up revising a huge portion-maybe 80 per cent-of that in my final 40K wordcount. Had I been typing it all, I don’t think I would have been so self-indulgent. ❌ My characters sometimes sounded like a bunch of junior high kids yammering on and on in tedious conversation just because I was able to yammer while dictating. ❌ Slogging through numerous episodes to correct the transcription was tedious and I gave up on it halfway through. ❌ Otter slowed down my computer and sometimes even made Word freeze. ❌ If I cancel my Otter subscription (which I am contemplating, as this experience wasn’t as good as I had hoped), my guess is I will lose all the recording/transcription synching ability (but since it’s a draft I really didn’t want to save, I’m not terribly cut up by that.) ❌ When I dictated directly into my laptop, the transcription was not as accurate as when I dictated into my recorder first and uploaded the mp3 into Otter. ❌ Unlike writing in the Dragon program, Otter does not recognize instructions like adding quotation marks or periods. ✔️ I got a lot of my steps, dictating while walking around in the house, in those nine hours. ✔️ Sometimes, on first drafts, I have to discard a lot of it anyway, so at least the first draft had been “written” so much faster, without the discomfort of having to type fast. ✔️ I was able to get distinct voices, speech patterns and personalities for my characters. ✔️ It was a crazy busy (and super-exciting) week with the month-early arrival of my grandson, so dictating a couple of hours here and there but getting high wordcounts felt like progress. ✔️ The transcription synching with the recording was good to have so that I could double-check the transcription’s accuracy (it was fairly good but was definitely not 100 per cent accurate).
(It was hard to check Facebook while working on Otter.) ✔️ I had Otter “read” the parts of the draft to me which encouraged me to keep working on the revision. ✔️ I could jump right into dictating without having to invest upwards of $200 into Dragon software that I have never used or tried before. I used a $12 monthly subscription for Otter. My revision converted the story to 40K words. With dictation, I recorded about 9 hours spread out over a week, coming out with 60K words for my first draft. With His to Comfortrevised and sent to the proofreader, I decided to do a case study of how this book went down as my very first dictated novel. Jin author life / dictation / Uncategorized by Jewel Allen
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