Your Overlooked Advantage of Writing with Audio

Audio methods provide you superpowers for book writing. One of the most underrated benefits is the degree of motivation you maintain during the process of telling your story.

What do you do when time and energy are both at a premium for putting together a manuscript? Let’s take this all from the standpoint that you don’t plan to use a ghostwriter or artificial intelligence.

Audio methods give you an incredible ability to tell your written stories while keeping high interest. Here’s the thought process as to why if you want to make the best use of your time and engagement levels.

Let’s say when it comes down to it that you finish your days exhausted or simply too tied up to take on more projects than you already have. Work, errands, athletics, or anything else chews away at space for anything additional.

Writing a book can feel novel at the beginning. There’s a certain element of excitement or an idea of what you want to produce. The novelty can wear off, and then it can feel like you’re involved some sort of errand that makes you sour on the experience. And you’re even more tired than previously.

You want to be an author, but you don’t want or have the time or interest or energy to write. Ask yourself if you notice how much more interested you are in saying your story out loud. You have the option to record yourself or use talk-to-text on any number of devices. You can even have somebody else record you. Regardless, you set up a scenario to use the transcriptions for editing.

For the moment, never mind about capturing your voice or talking like you think a book’s words should sound. Just begin telling your story. If you truly have a purpose to publish your work, you will find the best times and means to do so. That remains true whether you use a pen or keyboard or speak into the mic.

None of this will work if you don’t have an interest in doing it or won’t devote space for it in your schedule. As a matter of fact, even the space in your schedule isn’t enough if you don’t follow through. That’s something that only you can do.

You have audio options to keep things fresh as though you’re on a podcast or talking with friends. Now, more than ever, being a non-writer is less of an excuse than in the past. You can lie down in bed and dictate a story to your phone. You can sit in a chair and record yourself on your laptop while listening to soft music.

Do what makes sense and keeps you engaged. Would video recording yourself help? You can do that and you’ve got the audio to go along with it. Just make sure to figure out the transcription piece of it beforehand. You can apply the same principles to anything from constructing articles to creating speeches.

Stay engaged. Happy dictating, recording, and writing.