Hi!
I must admit I do not know where else to talk about this, so I decided I say it here.
OK..here goes. My crits have told me: "You should read your work aloud." This far I have done it...maybe once and realized nothing. But today I noticed something. I was listening to a cassette book. I followed the story in my ears (it is Finnish one) and thought "why and how can character be that stupid?"
I do not know what that means...is is writer's fault or mine...but I think something has happened to me. I mean...in the past I have not realized anything like that. Of course I know my writing is full of holes and I should fill them, but I have not found any material to do that.
And then another book I listened...Some points of the plot were like "Ah, I knew it! I knew that would happen" . I know I am not writing the clearest English in the world right now but I admit this thing...whatever this found is....I am a bit confused before this...thing. Maybe I just realized my crits were right about that reading thing...but why doesn't it work when I read my own writing aloud? Do I know the falses too clearly or am I blind to something else?
I must admit I do not know where else to talk about this, so I decided I say it here.
OK..here goes. My crits have told me: "You should read your work aloud." This far I have done it...maybe once and realized nothing. But today I noticed something. I was listening to a cassette book. I followed the story in my ears (it is Finnish one) and thought "why and how can character be that stupid?"
I do not know what that means...is is writer's fault or mine...but I think something has happened to me. I mean...in the past I have not realized anything like that. Of course I know my writing is full of holes and I should fill them, but I have not found any material to do that.
And then another book I listened...Some points of the plot were like "Ah, I knew it! I knew that would happen" . I know I am not writing the clearest English in the world right now but I admit this thing...whatever this found is....I am a bit confused before this...thing. Maybe I just realized my crits were right about that reading thing...but why doesn't it work when I read my own writing aloud? Do I know the falses too clearly or am I blind to something else?