Why a Digital Recorder can be an invaluable Tool in every Author’s Toolbox

A Digital Recorder is invaluable for each of the 3 Core Skills an Author must master (or at least get decently good in 1 of the 3 and master the other 2)

A Digital Recorder as an Invaluable Tool when Finding the Right Market (Knowing What to Write)

When finding The Right Market

1. You need to take everything you have researched, distill it in your head, and come up with a list of the best markets you should write in
   1. A digital recorder is great to take notes and do brainstorming
2. Sometimes you need to synthesize things that are known (known markets) and things that are not yet known (possible new markets that might be lucrative but are not yet explored)
   1. A digital recorder is important to do free noting (go through the thoughts in your head quickly and unlock your hidden intuition and your gut instinct)
   2. Playing back your voice notes will also give you moments of epiphany
3. You need to keep capturing different ideas you get, and locking down the different things you realize
   1. A digital recorder is great to capture all of these

Perhaps most importantly, when researching The Right Market, the most important activity is to take all your research, let it ferment in your brain, and then find something such as a beach or a mountain top to give you inspiration. So that everything you have researched, your gut instinct, your sixth sense, and your experiences as a writer, come together to find you the right markets

At such places a voice recorder is invaluable. You can speak out everything about the new markets you realize exist or should exist and are perfect for you

A Digital Recorder as an Invaluable Tool when Writing Your Book Very Well

As opposed to Finding a Market, where a Voice Recorder is about combining the known with the subconscious/the divinely inspired

When Writing Your Book, the Voice Recorder plays a much more workman like role

1. Speak out thoughts and ideas about your plot line while driving
2. Take notes on character development and characters ideas you get while taking a walk
3. Listen to your voice notes and integrate them into the actual story
4. If a sudden plot twist or breakthrough strikes you, your trusty digital recorder (or digital recording app) is right there to take down notes
5. Save lists of words you need to find synonyms for, sentences you need to replace, plot lines that do not resolve fully, or other such elements of your book
6. Keep ToDo Lists
7. Keep Reminders
8. If stuck, then talk to yourself and listen to yourself. It will help you unblock whatever aspect of the story you are stuck on

We will reiterate that Speaking Out Loud, as well as Listening to What You Have Recorded, taps into areas of your brain which simple writing and reading non verbally do not. You will create a more coherent and better structured story if you use a Digital Recorder to help you with your storyline and writing

A Digital Recorder as an Invaluable Tool when Marketing Your Book Very Well

When Marketing Your Book and learning to Market Your Book Very Well, you can use a Digital Recorder to

1. Take down ideas you get
2. List your marketing plans and where you are in terms of progress
3. Brainstorm for lists of places you can market for cheap and free
4. Talk through pros and cons of different marketing venues
   1. You will be pleasantly surprised by how much clarity you get when you hear yourself talking about pros and cons of a marketing venue
   2. Sometimes you can tell just from voice tone or the way you say it, that you somehow know that a marketing channel will work for you
5. You can do budget analysis
6. Times like driving and cooking you can talk out ideas and theories aloud and then refer to them later
7. Perhaps best of all, a voice recorder allows you a reference of what your marketing mindset was in the past, what it is now, and how it has evolved
   1. You can look at the changes in your mindset and whether they led to greater sales or lower sales