Premeditating Writer

I know I should be writing something. Every How To blogs aimed at writers tell you to get out of the comfort of your cozy cocoon and write a blog. Write a blog. Yuck. What if I have nothing to say? Silly, you think. Of course, you have something to say. You can say that it has taken you four years to write a book, another...

I often use a text to speech software to help me listen to mistakes in writing when I'm self-editing. There's that old advice of reading your writing aloud, but this seems to improve upon that. The tendency to gloss over errors when reading our own writing undermines the purpose of the whole process. When listening to...