When I'm in writing (typing) mode, I can hammer out 1K words of completely formatted, perfectly flowing text in about 45 minutes. I don't even see the words on the page, as the upcoming sentences are forming in my mind as I'm typing the current ones.
I could never use a program like this. With three kids in a busy house, it would be creating text such as, "Mom! Anthony hit me!" in the middle of a paragraph.
Then again, you are talking to someone who wrote their first manuscript on a circa 1940 manual typewriter. There is an atmosphere that surrounds me during the writing process, a mental place I go where everything around me fades away. I simply could not achieve that when I'm speaking.
Wish you best of luck with it, though.
Interesting comments, and I do appreciate them.
I remember in J-School (don’t flame me, people), I had to compose at the keyboard rather than write it longhand and convert to text. The jump was not easy. Then I found the leap to dictating text to be a near equivalent jump out of the old comfort zone. The book is to be an attempt at capturing the techniques to achieve that zone you’re talking about.
I’d never have gone there without a terminal case of carpal tunnel (repetitive motion injury?). Forced me into dictation mode even before Dragon was invented. And I was ready for voice-to-text when it arrived.
My first novel was typed on an Underwood.
I have a great deal of respect for your position. If I felt the way you do, I would not change, either.
Still, I think there’s a world of opportunity out there for those who have not arrived at your spot, and I want to talk to them, so to speak.