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A small, evergreen library for fiction writers who draft by talking — how to format a scene, handle dialogue, and keep your work on your own Mac. We publish when we have something genuinely useful to say, not on a schedule.
Plain dictation gives you accurate words in an unusable shape: one block, no paragraphs, dialogue without quotes. Here is what actually has to happen to turn speech into fiction — punctuation, paragraphing, and speaker breaks — and how Murmurtale does it as you talk.
Your unpublished manuscript is sensitive. Here's a plain-English map of what happens to your voice and text in cloud mode and on-device mode.
These posts are background reading. For step-by-step setup and troubleshooting, the Help Center is the place to start.
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