First reading and now this?

Thanks to Kristen's prompting, last year Eldest participated in the Young Writer's Program of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).  She didn't quite get done as we were just getting settled into our new place, but she gave it a valiant effort.  She has been scribbling notes down, writing on google docs and generally developing this story - which she has not shown to the parents who brought her into this world - for about six months now.  Well . . . she saw me working with my MacSpeech Dictate and her typing problems were solved*.  Here she is adding to her novel.  She thinks this is just too cool.

* Don't worry, she will still work on proper typing, but at this point her mind is moving far faster than her fingers can.

Comments

[Doug]

I think its cute, and actually kind of cool, that she hasn't shown you the MS yet. I'd use voice recognition too, but at this point my fingers need to slow down for my mind to keep up. Granted, that's after years and years of typing all the time, but still.

I do look forward to great voice-rec tech for when I get arthritis but I still want to write dorky books.

I'm also always happy to hear of someone else working on NaNoWriMo. I remember my first epic stories, written in grade school, how awful they were and how much I liked them at the time. Great stuff.

[kristen]

good for her. i gotta say, i'm pretty proud of her for sticking with it. you can read it when she's done. ; )