: A simple, semi-reliable test of whether your writing sounds natural: Read it out loud. Does it sound natural? A less simple but more reliable test: Hand it to someone who has not read it,

A simple, semi-reliable test of whether your writing sounds natural: Read it out loud. Does it sound natural?

A less simple but more reliable test: Hand it to someone who has not read it, and ask them to read it out loud. Do they stumble as they are reading it? Does it sound natural?

I listen to lots of audiobooks. Even the most professional readers stumble sometimes (and some of those stumbles make it through to the published audiobook). Inevitably, when professional actor or audiobook reader stumbles, it's because the text is awkward in some way.

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: A simple, semi-reliable test of whether your writing sounds natural: Read it out loud. Does it sound natural? A less simple but more reliable test: Hand it to someone who has not read it,

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: What are the basic elements of a crime investigation story? I've been delving a lot into the the crime investigation genre, and at first I thought "Simple, just start of with Who, What, Where,

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