{"id":22850,"date":"2020-03-19T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=22850"},"modified":"2020-03-19T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T04:22:42","slug":"6-reasons-to-narrate-your-book-by-patricia-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/6-reasons-to-narrate-your-book-by-patricia-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons to Narrate Your Book by Patricia Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"6<\/a>Today we welcome a new guest writer to Writer\u2019s Fun Zone, Patricia Simpson who is stopping by to chat with us about \u201c6 Reasons to Narrate Your Book.\u201d \u00a0Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

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You\u2019re an indie author.<\/strong> Your critique group and beta readers have scrutinized your chapters and cover. You have made final changes and are ready to publish. Right? Wrong. Make an audiobook first. Here are the reasons why you may want to <\/span>narrate your book<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

6 Reasons Why to Narrate Your Book\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

1. The ear hears what the eye skips over.<\/b><\/h3>\n

In this day of digital media, we have grown accustomed to skimming for information. We scan paragraphs for salient points and move on. Our eyes are designed to do this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of us can read words whose letters are jumbled almost as easily as if the letters were in the correct order. Understanding at a glance is a skill.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our skimming skill isn\u2019t that great for editing.<\/strong> My eyes will gloss right over \u201cthe\u201d next to \u201cthe,\u201d especially if there\u2019s a line break between them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet if I\u2019m reading the manuscript out loud, I\u2019m using my brain in a different way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When reading as a narrator, the brain knows it has to quit scanning, pay attention to what the mouth is saying and the ear is hearing and take the time to understand and pronounce every word.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Narration catches convoluted writing.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

Sometimes, after numerous rewrites, we can overwork a paragraph until it reads like a James Joyce novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Long, convoluted sentences can lose your reader and force them to backtrack, just to understand what you are trying to say. <\/span>The horror.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t realize how convoluted the writing is<\/strong>, because you\u2019ve read it so many times you could probably recite it by heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When you read your book out loud, however, your voiceover actor self will experience the same confusion a reader experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n