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Some known and lesser known benefits of reading your work aloud

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Writers are often told to read your work out loud. You know, I’m sure, the thinking behind this - it can highlight basic grammar errors, show you where dialogue is forced or stilted, indicate where the pace is wrong (skipping over crucial moments, slowing down in the bog of exposition), and help you discover if your characters are moribund or alive.

I’d argue that recording yourself reading and playing it back is an even better method - and has less well-known benefits which I have highlighted beyond the paywall below. If you would like to become a paid subscriber (for which I would be very grateful as I try to build Writing Talk from a labour of love to a supportive writing community), then just click on the button below.