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Steno Question 7
THE SITUATION: You have been away from the machine for several years. THE QUESTION: How can you brush up your skills? AnswerWhen you first start practicing, it will be frustrating. Your memory will not supply all of the stroke outlines as fast as you need them. You will have to work through this. Luckily, as your memory of certain strokes returns, your memory of all of the strokes will improve. Your brain hasn't had to access the info for quite a while. It will take time before all of those strokes are taken out of "storage" and put into the "needed on a daily basis" pile.
You already know how to write, and you already know how to write fast. Reviewing your theory book and stroking slowly and correctly on the machine will help on the first part.
To help you write fast again, finger drills are quite useful. These will reinforce and reawaken the patterns (not the stroke patterns) that the brain uses to command the fingers. You can think of it as the reaction time. Hear the stroke, send the command to the fingers, perform the stroke.
Work on difficult words or outlines at a slow pace. These strokes are hard for the brain to remember, hard for the brain to send to the fingers, or hard for the fingers to perform. You have to give them time.
Work on easy words or outlines at a faster pace. These words will help you with that reaction time.
Easy rules:
Things you know you can practice fast.
Things you don't know well, you must practice slow.
If you practice at a speed that does not allow you to get all of the dictation, there are two choices: You can get all of the words and write sloppy or you can write clean and get as much as you can. The proper choice is to write clean and get as much as you can.
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