A Way of Composing

Breath moves cursor.Thought arrives aloud.Paragraphs become landscape.The voice makes clay.Draft zero, still warm.I compose forwards. A Way of ComposingOn The BlogStart Select Reset 📑Photo 365Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: A Way of Composing I was telling someone the other day about just how completely dictation and speech-to-text software has taken over my life. How it’s transformed not only my relationship with writing, but also with my computer. One of the things about having a blog and writing regularly on it is that sometimes, you’ll mention something in passing, then it’ll come up again and again. The same is true of keeping a journal, it means you can follow the thread, a thought, or a concept across years of your life. Using dictation and speech-to-text software, apparently, is one of those threads. I first mentioned using speech-to-text dictation on here way back in 2018, in the sixth-ever episode of Permanently Moved in fact: The other thing I…