It will also show you whether the flow of your story is easy to follow or does it get interrupted with needless over intellectual words that appear in your immense vocabulary??
Reading it out loud will show you exactly where that comma and those quotes need to be. Because in the end you, want your writing to be followed and understood like your reader is watching a movie or living the story itself, you do not want your writing to have hiccups and hang ups due to poor word choice or grammar.
Tip when reading your work out loud:
- Read it over to yourself several times, and when you find a problem, fix it and go back to the beginning and re-read it out loud.
- Read to a friend - sometimes getting another persons opinion is better than just sitting on your own. You can see if they are confused about something, or if there is something not well explained. Don't forget as a writer we normally know the surrounding and back ground story, the reader doesn't.
- Use a Thesaurus - If there is a word your really really really want in your story but it doesn't go with the flow of your story, then try a thesaurus. I obviously do not need to explain the potential goodness of a good thesaurus.
- Ask friends to read your story, but more importantly ask them to tell you a brief summary of your story. See if they got the full picture of what your story is about or did only certain scenes stick in their minds.
Well good luck and as always let me know if you wrote something. I'd love to read it and promote it. Feel free to share any of your pieces whether it be published or not.
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