A New Creativity with Voiceitt

For the first time, because of Voiceitt, I was able to fully participate in the

is a speech-to-text technology that, empowered by AI, recognises non-standard speech. creative writing process.

I'm an artist, I love words and poetry. Living with cerebral palsy, being a very slow typer deeply grieved and frustrated me.

I have invested in my artistry through workshops and courses. During those facilitations, I learned that writing at speed without pause is a fundamental technique used by creative writers. I was unable to fully enter into that process.

Voiceitt transformed my writing. It Instead of plugging away one word at a time, I can now write 600 words in an hour… just by talking!

 My writing being accelerated through Voiceitt, I was keen to stretch myself…to try it out via a guided writing facilitation. So when my mentor, Luka Lesson, promoted his 21-day writing challenge in January, I jumped on it! Each day, the challenge presented a prompt to kickstart 30 minutes of writing without pause. Writing without pause is a means to tap into deeper creativity. It’s a technique writers use to bypass their editing, critical instincts. For years I had known about the technique. Now I was free to fully enter into it!

Luka Lesson

I tapped into creativity that surprised me. Taking on those 21 challenges produced a 57-page record of my words, thoughts, ponderings and concepts. An amount of writing that is vast beyond what I was capable of before I found Voiceitt. Among much rambling, there were unexpected gems. Gems that I can excavate and work into creative pieces.

Day 10’s prompt was to write about a plant. I started writing about a healthy tree. Then I wrote of the tree thinking about its brothers and sisters in California who were burning and perishing. At the time, wildfires were burning in California. I then somehow got onto writing about the tree that was fashioned into the cross that took Jesus’ life. I am a Christian. I wouldn’t have thought of personifying trees if I had tried, let alone the cross! It blew my mind! I’m enjoying crafting that concept and writing into a poem.

On Day 17 the prompt was to write about what I am thankful for. During the last five minutes or so I wrote about my friend. I wrote about her being like a tree by a river. Although she has lived through a lot of trauma she is still standing. Standing by the life-giving river. Again this blew my mind! I am enjoying working this into a poem for my dear friend.

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