Comment by mtlynch

>And read it out loud! If you cannot, at least get an AI voice actor to read it for you. You catch so many more problems that way.

Definitely agree.

I initially included this in the article but I took it out because I wanted to limit to just advice I didn't see covered much elsewhere, but I always tell people to read their writing aloud.

I don't think an AI voice would get most of the benefits, though. For me, a lot of what I notice when I read my writing aloud is that I find myself naturally finishing sentences in a way that departs from what's on the page. And however I finished the sentence naturally almost always is a better rewrite than what was originally there.