November 23: Listening to Your Memoir Yields Dividends

Listening to your memoir yields dividends. As writers, we have often experienced writing what we deem to be deathless prose. Later, perhaps a week or a month later, when we pick up our own manuscript again, we realize that our deathless prose is perhaps closer to deadly prose.

Hearing your memoir read aloud makes your writing better

Having your story read out loud is a revealing experience. Whether it is someone else who is reading or you yourself, it seems that you become a much more obje...