Creative Adrenaline for Writers: Five Tips on How to Edit Your Story for Style, Economy and Flow II
Read aloud as you are editing. Reading your fiction or non-fiction story aloud is a powerful editing tool to find road-bumps and obstructions that you might otherwise miss. It’s effective, also, in developing a sense of flow throughout the story. Reading aloud also helps to link the intuitive mind, with the analytical mind, and your descriptions, word economy and strength of plot will all shine for it.