Why you Should read Everything Twice
The reason may surprise you
I often read things twice; books, emails, blogs, my own writing.
Why is that?
Well, I used to be a perfectionist, but no, it isn’t to search for errors.
Have you ever noticed that you may be in a particular mood when you write something? Are you feeling elated, sad, fed up, or something unprintable?
Have your emotions risen to the surface and insisted that you pay attention to them. Has your body has started to cry out, notice me, that isn’t fair, this isn’t right. You must do something, say something, act now!
And then you do. You say something, you do something, you write something, just like Sapien has written about the life of a doctor, and how a doctor may feel.
Well, now perhaps you can see where I am leading up to. The reason I re-read what I have written, not just to check for typos (I refuse to use AI to fix my grammar), it is because you are projecting your own mood and feelings onto the writing, or work of other people.
I have written about this before, but if you don’t believe this, then read a blog once, and go back to it a month later and see how you feel about it. Depending on your mood, you may notice something about it that you missed, or you may feel it differently, and this is most likely to be because of your mood at the time.
That is all from me today.
All my love,
Hermione x
Here is the link to an article I wrote the week before I joined Medium, on why I tend to post first drafts, which is not the same as not reading; Lol. Feel free to skim read as I won’t get paid for your reads. Shout out to Mona Lazar for inspiring the post below, and Indigo for getting this post you just read more traction, and Shout out to Logan Silkwood for reminding me to link to this post with a question below.
My latest children’s book is published on Amazon. You can find it above.
