Being Read To
I was thinking about this for my post on my From Light to Dark and Back Again book page on Facebook tonight.
The reason the topic came up is because I'm looking forward to reading a couple of my 100-word stories from the book at the upcoming Bridge House/Cafelit/Chapeltown event in London in December. But I'm also looking forward to being read to by the other writers taking part then. I've always loved being read to from a very young age.
A good narrative voice can add so much enjoyment to a story. I love the audiobook versions of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (the ones read by Tony Robinson) and we often have those on when on a long car journey. Makes the time just fly. You can hear the characters literally being given their own voice.
I find reading my own work out loud is a fantastic way of showing up where my dialogue is not quite so easy to read as I thought it was! If I trip over it, any reader would so out comes the old editing pen. I don't know what it is about the spoken word showing up faults in the word as it is written, but it does do so and I find reading out loud a vital part of my editing.
The reason the topic came up is because I'm looking forward to reading a couple of my 100-word stories from the book at the upcoming Bridge House/Cafelit/Chapeltown event in London in December. But I'm also looking forward to being read to by the other writers taking part then. I've always loved being read to from a very young age.
A good narrative voice can add so much enjoyment to a story. I love the audiobook versions of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (the ones read by Tony Robinson) and we often have those on when on a long car journey. Makes the time just fly. You can hear the characters literally being given their own voice.
I find reading my own work out loud is a fantastic way of showing up where my dialogue is not quite so easy to read as I thought it was! If I trip over it, any reader would so out comes the old editing pen. I don't know what it is about the spoken word showing up faults in the word as it is written, but it does do so and I find reading out loud a vital part of my editing.
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