08-06-2021, 03:02 AM
I think it's hard NOT to read your own poems fast. No matter how many times I read them over or read them aloud, I miss the most obvious flaws. The next hardest thing is to put it aside for the next day. To read it again the next day and the next as well. To hold back on posting it into the forum, before I've waited a few days and let myself become detached from those first moments of writing. And I can never really deatch myself enough to read it as a stranger would read it.
Ideally my word processor would just slowly reveal what I've written, one word or one line at a time. And read it aloud to me in another voice. And critique it. Wouldn't that be nice? Even some simple criticisms, like "you used this word twice". That's the Siri I need.
Ideally my word processor would just slowly reveal what I've written, one word or one line at a time. And read it aloud to me in another voice. And critique it. Wouldn't that be nice? Even some simple criticisms, like "you used this word twice". That's the Siri I need.