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Dragon NaturallySpeaking and NaNoWrimo

Did you November is National Novel Writing Month (hence, NaNoWrimo). NaNoWrimo is an interesting approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1 and end November 30. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word).  This requires you to write a minimum of 1,667 words a day which can be very daunting.  This is why using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for NaNoWrimo would take some of the pressure off. I know my sister would love to write a novel one day.  It is honestly her lifelong dream.  She went to college and majored in English, so she could do it.  However, she is super busy (and this is before she even has kids!).  When I learned about Dragon Naturally Speaking, I knew this would be a perfect fit for her.  This can definitely help her blogging (of course, she is a blogger too!).  However, I personally don’t think she thinks she has the time for something of this magnitude.

If you want to see how this would help you, you have to take the Dragon’s typing speed test! I tried it with Will (my 16 month old) hanging on me (so I really do type faster, but this is what my life is like normally. That is why blogging usually takes me all day. LOL  Here’s my test results:

Let me tell you, I couldn’t believe how fast the speaker was compared to my typing.  Granted, I could have typed faster without Will, but I still couldn’t have kept up with the speaker.  There is no way.  I think I know what I am buying my sister for Christmas.  She has some big changes coming her way and this would allow her to both continue blogging and to write her novel.

I may not be writing a novel, but man, I can see so many uses for myself with this software.  Since I have five blogs and two little kids, I could definitely get more work done with this versus me typing out my blog posts (see score up above – lol).  This would make it much easier to write posts for my travel blog when we are on the road, and I could write my posts for my cooking blog while I am cooking the recipe I am going to write about.  I could take the time I save and spend it with my family instead of working.  It would be nice to be able to go to bed before midnight.  Do you want to see how easy this is to use?

As you can see, anyone can use this software. It is that easy.  Don’t believe me?  Read some of these Dragon Reviews. I actually know people who have this and they absolutely love it.  I am still working on getting my hands on one of these, so I can save some of my precious time.

Bills IQ

Do you know what your Bills IQ is?

That is my score.  Bill and I have worked on our credit and debt ratios, so I know that is why we scored so well.  I had to laugh — the areas that we need to work on we already know.  We really need to start college funds for the kids.  Even though we know, we should do that, we just haven’t yet (which reminds me that we should call the bank).  We also need to keep more money in our savings for emergencies.  Those are our two biggest things we need to work on.

This quiz is something we should all take. It definitely gets you thinking about your financial situation and what you should be doing to make your financial situation better.  I even wrote a haiku (well, I think that it is a haiku) for you all to help remind you to check your Bills IQ:

Learn to save money

And be happy and wiser

At bills IQ’s site!

If you know you are financially secure, I think everyone is happier — you, your kids, and your spouse.  There always isn’t an underlying tension, because you are worried about how you are going to pay the next bill.  The best thing we ever did was pay off all of our credit cards and never carry a balance again.  It has allowed us to only carry debt with our cars and our mortgage.  That is it!  We still argue, but at least its not about money!

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