There are skills that we as writers can develop to help our writing get to its best form before we ever hand it off to someone else to help bring it to its shiny state. Reading your words out loud is the biggest tip I can give to help you edit your work. As a former teacher, it was always difficult to get someone to read out his or her own writing out loud. For some reason, giving a physical voice to what we’ve written gives us the shivers. The reason: reading out loud makes our writing live. If you read your own words out loud, there are a few benefits when it comes to editing your writing. One, it makes you pay attention…