Your Megaphone Will Save Your Ass

Why you should ALWAYS read your story aloud before publishing here. Or anywhere.

In college I got in the habit of reading every paper I wrote aloud. I caught grammatical mistakes, way more than an English major should cop to. When I began at the student newspaper, I muttered each piece to myself before filing it to my editor. I read aloud from any book I loved, too, so I might better hear the rhythms of…