Viva Le Modern Technology!

It's true I want to live in a log home out in the wilds of Alaska with a big, old barn full of chickens, goats, and other critters, churn my own butter, and dig fence posts and build doghouses, but when it comes to writing I'm very glad to have modern technology.  In fact, I think I go low-tech in the rest of my life because I use so much high-tech in my writing life.  I do almost everything on the computer for the authorly side of my life.  Feeding the chickens balances that out, emotionally, I guess.  Balance is good for life. 
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Anyway, I bought this snazzy little voice recorder to keep in my purse alongside my mini-notebook and pen.  It's easier on my Tendonitis-prone hands.  I create a novel in my head completely and then I beat it out, ala Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet   as well as one I created myself which includes the finer points of the  Monomyth   And then I write a scene-by-scene outline.  After that's all worked out, then, I finally write the first draft.  By the time I get to starting the first draft of the next novel, Blood, Dark and Sweet on New Year's Day, I'll have my voice-activated software and know how to use it too.  But, until then, a simple voice recorder will do the job.  I'm supposed I'll still need to edit later drafts by hand, not sure.  Gotta get used to speaking it and see how it works out.
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Here's the voice-recorder link, in case you need one too-  http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=rca+voice+recorder&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS393US393&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&ion=1&biw=1067&bih=467&wrapid=tlif132119326645310&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=2543331498301412140&sa=X&ei=O8-_Ts_dB6OpiQKbo4G8Aw&ved=0CLQBEPMCMAU#    I found mine in the electronics section of the grocery store.  It's small and hard to find, so I had to ask an employee to find it for me.
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It took J.R.R. Tolkien nine years, I think, to write The Lord of the Rings.  Can you imagine what he might have done with our technology?