Five winning stories will be selected by a panel of judges, and the winning entrants will each receive an Amazon Kindle 2 as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades for three years.
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Living with chronic pain is not easy, and it is because of the chronic pain that I chose to be an English major. When I started to choose a career, little did I know I would fall in love with writing and enjoy every minute of the literature classes. It only took two consecutive exams for me to realize that I had chosen the best area of study, I absolutely loved writing those essays, but my hands were less than thrilled. It caused my fibromyalgia to flare and I lost the use my hands for a short time.
I scheduled a meeting with the director of the disability department because I was worried that since I could not write essays or take tests I was going to have to change my major – although, to what I did not know. She immediately told me about Dragon NaturallySpeaking and I was shocked to learn that there was an easy fix to my problem. Thankfully, I had scholarship money to use to buy the program and I immediately started training the program. To my surprise, I found that writing essays using voice recognition software did not require much more time than typing and I continued to get A’s on my papers. My mother tried to type as I dictated but she was unable to keep up with my fast dictations the way the Dragon program can; it also took much longer because she is not trained for that job.
Whenever I tell some one that I talk to my computer and it does what I say, they give me an inquisitive look but are intrigued by the possibility of this technology. My most frequent use of Dragon is to write papers, but when the dexterity of my hands is severely impaired I use it to search the Internet and create presentations. Without Dragon I would not be able to pursue my dreams of professional writing nor finishing my degree with high grades; I am so grateful for this technology.