reading out loud!!! *snip* are there really people out there who don't?
Well. Me. *g* I tell other people to, but I don't -- but that's because I do hear it as I write, right down to punctuation. Anything I miss when I'm writing, I catch on the editing pass. Then the betas take over.
Clearly, though, a whole lotta people can't hear what they're writing without using their actual ears to do it, and they don't bother with it.
and yet i myself couldn't fathom showing anything like that even to a close friend and certainly want to stay as far away as i can from having to read it!!!
No. Kidding. I'm all in favor of people writing whatever and whenever they want (go them!) but ye gods -- just because it's written doesn't mean it has to be shared. It's like thinking that just because you like singing in the shower, you should go sing on a street corner for everyone else's enjoyment, regardless of whether you can actually sing.
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Well. Me. *g* I tell other people to, but I don't -- but that's because I do hear it as I write, right down to punctuation. Anything I miss when I'm writing, I catch on the editing pass. Then the betas take over.
Clearly, though, a whole lotta people can't hear what they're writing without using their actual ears to do it, and they don't bother with it.
and yet i myself couldn't fathom showing anything like that even to a close friend and certainly want to stay as far away as i can from having to read it!!!
No. Kidding. I'm all in favor of people writing whatever and whenever they want (go them!) but ye gods -- just because it's written doesn't mean it has to be shared. It's like thinking that just because you like singing in the shower, you should go sing on a street corner for everyone else's enjoyment, regardless of whether you can actually sing.