Haha, it was pretty hard. I will post it eventually if you're interested, but it's weird because there are a lot of blank spaces and trying to remember words and also I kept getting distracted. There are a few points where I'm just laughing to myself about a line and saying 'you're gonna cut this, it's terrible.' I did cut those, too. And I wrote some Master and Commander fic on the third day and couldn't remember my main character's name, so I just called him Mr Ryan the whole time (his name is William Marshall, so... not even close). I couldn't possibly do this with a real human being trying to type it up.
I think it worked because I was writing one-shots that I had been turning over in my head for a while, so it's not like I was trying to plot as I went. And also because my first draft goal is always just 'get it on the page and edit later,' so I wasn't super worried about getting it right. I rewrote this fic a lot and added about 2,500 words to it after I'd finished transcribing.
It also takes a long time! I think shorter than just typing, but still a long time. The audio draft for this fic was almost 2 hours.
And thank you!! I really appreciate your icon, and also the opportunity to babble about this.
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Date: 2015-06-14 01:12 am (UTC)I think it worked because I was writing one-shots that I had been turning over in my head for a while, so it's not like I was trying to plot as I went. And also because my first draft goal is always just 'get it on the page and edit later,' so I wasn't super worried about getting it right. I rewrote this fic a lot and added about 2,500 words to it after I'd finished transcribing.
It also takes a long time! I think shorter than just typing, but still a long time. The audio draft for this fic was almost 2 hours.
And thank you!! I really appreciate your icon, and also the opportunity to babble about this.