The Best Editing Advice: Read and Record Your Work Out Loud

By Charlotte Maya

The best editing advice I received when I was writing my memoir seemed horrifying at first. I was taking a workshop with Emily Rapp Black, and she described the most efficient editing technique she knows: first, record yourself reading your entire manuscript; then, listen to yourself read the whole thing.

Kind of makes you want to return to the dreadful drafting stage, doesn’t it?

Here is how it works:

Press Record:

Buckle up. Step one takes a while. The avera...