I recently realized that I've dropped a long-time habit of mine. I guess it happened while I was working as a page designer and I never picked it back up.
The habit? Moving my lips while editing. Or just plain reading aloud.
It's a great help when self-editing; I began doing it while I was reporting and carried it with to the copy desk back in Texas. It suddenly hit me earlier this week when I was rereading something I'd written a couple of months ago and I found two very basic errors right away. My writing has suffered since I quit self-editing this way.
My new goal is to get back into this habit.
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