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September 19th: Have you ever read your work aloud?

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Good afternoon, #PretendPanel!

We are actually reading small excerpts each week for our 'Novel Newbs' vlogs! We've only done so once, but we think it'll be a fun addition for those who follow the process.

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#pretendpanel Only to my wife. She has similarly read her work to me. It is a nice romantic thing that I recommend to authors, especially if they are married to an author too.

I have, yes! I read them outloud to my wife, in fact. It's a fun way to share the stories with her and get her live reactions. Also, obviously, it helps me catch typos and word flow issues.

I did TRY to do an amateur audiobook, but my recording environment proved too unstable.
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These days, I only come up with voiceclaims if I stumble onto them and realize 'oh, that's perfect.' For an audiobook specifically, I'd just prefer a woman narrate, since most of my casts are women XD
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#PretendPanel I have! Both for the editing process and professionally. I'm the narrator for Acanthus in the audiobooks. My husband narrates Cypress.

To myself for editing purposes? Yes, often.

For other people's ears? Also yes, in the most terrifying (to me) way. I record it. I make actual recordings of me reading my writing for other people to listen to on Patreon. I never thought I'd have the guts to do that, but here we are.

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To someone else?

Well, come close to find out

Closer than that

Bit closer

The answer be

No

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Constantly. When I'm writing dialogue, I often write it aloud. I also do it while writing to get pacing in dialogue right.
I do it in editing to get a good flow and structure (and to catch mistakes)
I do it when just reading it through before I'm ready to say "it's finished"

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I have. I do most time when editing so I can hear that it flows. If I read the sentence more than once to understand it, I know that I either have to rephrase or delete altogether 😅

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Reading aloud is popular for editing but it doesn't work for me...😅

I used to get low reading comprehension scores in school so my mom would practice with me, i'd read something simple like "The dog was brown" out loud and she'd say "So what color was the dog?" and i'd be like ????🤷 #PretendPanel

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I have and it completely changed how I look at editing. I’m actually pretty against universal writing advise but this is the exception: read your draft out loud. It will do *wonders* for your writing.

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Oh, all the time! I like to have a bad screen reader voice narrate it back as it's easier to hear it stumble over grammar mistakes.

Prose has a melody and the best way to catch a discordant sentence or word is out loud.

It must *sound* like a book.

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The first time I did it, I knew it would become an essential part of my editing process.
I don’t plan to ever publish something that I haven’t given at least one verbal editing run.
I usually follow it up with a double-check using the voice-to-text tool, as well.

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My WIP? Not yet.

I have had a few readings of my scripts before, and those were super fun!

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I haven't read my fiction aloud (save for myself when editing), but I've read my non-fiction several times.

I was a theatre geek, so it's been another facet of performing. I really enjoy getting to do so.

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I have tried some tests for a possible audio book.

I'm not sure an autistic Glaswegian with a speech impediment is really the most appealing voice tho'

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