If you want fresh eyes don’t use them.

We’re at the editing stage of our work.  We’ve been over it four or five times.  Still tweaking the same old passages?  Still skimming over the great bits?  We’re all prone to missing the lazy sentence, the rambling paragraph or image, wordiness, messiness, adverbs gone wild.  So how do we look at our work afresh?  The best way is to read it aloud.  We have to slow down.  We have to read every word and not skim.  We will hear when a paragraph or a sentence goes on too long and where we haven’t been clear.  Still tempted to skim?  Cut anything that holds you up.  If you’re not interested in it then neither is your reader.  Ears are the new eyes, folks.  Use them.


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Published on February 26, 2015 09:30
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