Conor MahoodDec 28, 2022

Teach me something useful about a subject you know very well.

Doesn't have to be a detailed lesson, in fact ideally just a few words or a single post.

Boosts appreciated, 2023 is coming and I'd like to get smarter. Maybe we can all get a bit smarter.

I'll start:

My job is voiceovers and I can tell you with absolute confidence that reading your writing out loud is like a magic trick for better proofreading.

The mouth stumbles on mistakes the eyes glide over.

Show threadabeltrevDec 30, 2022
@ConorMahood I'm a speechwriter and I'm always telling people that the cardinal rule is to read what you write out loud - record yourself if necessary - because the written word is very different from the spoken word.
Show threadConor Mahood
@abeltrev yes! Specifically for anything that will eventually be spoken, if the script hasn't been read out loud before being sent to VO/being brought to the podium... Chances are quality will suffer.
Dec 30, 2022 at 1:44pmWeb