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A good way to assess yourself from a new point of view is to:

Read your work out loud.

Your ear catches things your eye misses, both on the level of content and form. Some things your ears will notice better than your eyes:

unwanted repetition of words and phrases
word choice
how well you've achieved a desired tone
rhythm
emotional range
how real/believable/human you sound

Writers tend to think of communicating from page to brain, but it's worth reminding ourselves from time to time that story writing was born of an oral tradition.

Here are a couple links that discuss this topic:
www.forbes.com/sites/katelee/2012/08/01/to-write-like-a-human-read-your-work-out-loud/ www.juliamccutchen.com/blog/?p=697

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