Reading Out Loud

If you read your own writing out loud, you might hear words and phrases that don’t belong. You can then rewrite it to sound more natural—more like you. The funny thing is that it’s not the version of you that usually does the talking. It’s still you, but clearer for having first discussed it with yourself.

If you repeat this process over and over, you might catch yourself saying very interesting things; things that you never could have said unless you had first heard them from another version of you, reading your writing out loud.