Helle Norup | Children’s author

I’m sitting in the sun and reading aloud to myself. And, yes, that is completely normal writer behaviour.
I usually do this before sending off a draft to check the rhythm of the sentences and that the dialogue sounds reasonably natural. (Faeries tend to speak a little differently from humans!)
It’s also one of the best tools to catch those tiny mistakes, like missing or double words and spelling errors, like when I had written ‘spite’ instead of ‘sprite’ in Into The Faerie Hill… no spell checker caught that.
On my last read-aloud, when I’m proofreading the final text, I even read the book backwards starting from the last sentence.
Writers, when and how do you read your manuscripts aloud?
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