Painters look at a painting upside down to notice flaws they've gotten used to. When you're writing something, you can get a similar effect by changing the margins.
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Read your writing out loud. Look at it with fresh ears!
I read everything out loud several times before I publish it. I suspect that tongue-twisting passages are harder to read as well as to say. Not sure if that's true, but I always fix them anyway.
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On my first book, I didn't read it out loud until I recorded the audio version. Definitely caught some needlessly complex sentences that would have benefited from more simplicity and clarity. Lesson learned.
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At my first job, I had to proofread academic journal articles prior to publishing. Including capitalization and punctuation. "Initial cap at my first job comma I had to..." Usually tedious, but sometimes helped find errors and weirdness.
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Great one. We also got the habit of printing the text to catch typos. Always more efficient than reading on the screen (we used recycle paper and optimised toner).
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