Over on Backspace, we were talking about blogs, then got randomly off topic and somehow the act of typing came up, wherein a few people admitted to being peckers (as in, hunt and peck). I asked why they didn't use voice recognition software. Heather cracked me up with what she suspected would happen if she tried speaking her prose into a microphone:
"Vlad stepped into the hall, minding the lack of sound around him. Ahead, there was the shape of a man, but it couldn't be...no honey, mommy's writing. I'll get you chocolate milk in a minute. Where was I? Oh yeah, that shadowy hall thing. Hmmm...okay, but it couldn't be a man--Vlad was alone. He'd check the entire house over and locked the door himself. He...what? WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU FROM IN HERE! Yeah, chocolate milk. I don't know, give her a cookie until I can thaw the chicken."
Seeing that, I suddenly realized exactly what my prose would look like:
"Bobbie Faye wasn't going to panic. There would be no panicking in the Sumrall househald. Which was when she noticed the WHAT? I don't know where it is. No, I didn't move it. No. What? No, the last time I saw it, it was in the where the hell did he go? Where are you? Will you quit moving around the house? It was in your closet. No, your closet. okay, where was I? Right. She noticed the trailer starting to NO. I did NOT MOVE IT. I don't know where you put it, it wasn't my day to watch it. Okay, and lessee... she noticed the trailer starting to. What? Holy freaking geez.
::::::stomp stomp stomp:::::
:::::: commit murder:::::::::::
::::::return to computer::::::::
Okay. Thank God. Quiet. I wonder if they have laptops in solitary?"
Check out Heather's blog... she's got a cool YA vampire novel coming out soon.
Posted by toni at March 21, 2006 01:50 PMTotally down with that conversation.
I'd like to add what it would sound like in my house:
"God! I can't believe you wore my shirt again. Mom, tell her to stay out of my room." Door slams. Fallout Boy blasts from the i-pod. And to think I couldn't wait until she talked...
Posted by: Lori G. Armstrong at March 21, 2006 06:28 PMThat's great. Mine would have snippets of overheard dialogue from "24" in it...
Posted by: Nancy at March 21, 2006 06:37 PM*peeks in*
I took my NCLEX....still clicking like a crazed woman to find out the results (I can get them on line.....just not fast enough!) and then I can return to norm......ermm...I can return to something closely resembling normal.
Big Hugs
Posted by: Shannon at March 21, 2006 06:51 PM