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.
I felt lucky to have found a use for my law degree that let me be a bit creative: writing books at a publishing company that specializes in putting the law and related practical matters into plain English, for ordinary people. (Topics include how to immigrate to the U.S., buy a house, fundraise for a nonprofit, and more).
I think I'd written about four books when my fingers literally went on strike -- I could barely lift a toothbrush. Even after returning from weeks of disability leave, lifting a stack of papers was difficult. And I had deadlines looming.
Enter the Dragon. This easy-to-learn software let me get back to work without aggravating my sore arms. The only thing I had trouble getting used to was forming my thoughts out loud -- I'd always said my fingers did the thinking, hovering there over the keyboard. But as I got used to it, I realized there's no better way to make sure writing is in "plain English" than to draw on spoken English. I've written at least five additional books using Dragon, and more are to come . . .