"Recognize that the voice in your head is an unreliable narrator. When you’re reading your prose right after writing it down, you’re hearing what you wanted to

"Recognize that the voice in your head is an unreliable narrator. When you’re reading your prose right after writing it down, you’re hearing what you wanted to say, not what the text actually spells out." I, somehow, taught myself to "read aloud in my head". That is, I can go back and read the text I've written as if I were speaking it aloud. It requires a slower, more deliberate reading of the text and I've noticed that my tongue is trying to move inside my mouth. So I assume I've somehow lit up areas of my brain that would be involved in actual speaking. This is incredibly helpful to do because it enables you to re-read something almost as if you were someone else. The careful reader in you is very different from the writer.