The method of speaking your stream of consciousness aloud and letting it be transcribed by software is, I think, a really great way to achieve free and open creation.
There’s something that happens when the method we use to record our thoughts and feelings is able to keep up at the same pace in real-time. There aren’t any pauses that give you the opportunity to second guess, go back and correct, or intentionally steer the tracks that your train of thought is already chugging along at its natural pace.
There needs to be a certain disconnect between the writer writing and the writer reading. It can be disruptive for the writer to read their words as they are writing them. When a writer types or writes by hand, it’s difficult not to read the words they’ve written. They are right there on the page or the computer screen next to the space soon to be filled by the following word that they were trying to get down.
When you are speaking, you can’t see your words. This may be one of the main benefits of writing via transcription—you can’t see what you’ve already done. If you close your eyes, let go of inhibition, don’t worry about who is listening, and really twist the lens of the microscope to focus down on the exact present moment in your head and your heart and translate those thoughts and feelings in the vocabulary you have—I think this is one of the best ways to create freely and openly, to make our internal world feel wide and expansive and limitless.