Another task of writing is getting an assist from technology. Sometimes when you've been toiling away at a piece sculpting it and trimming it for hours and it's getting on towards midnight and you're too tired to read it aloud to yourself you can do what I do. I have an option in my MacBook to send selection to iTunes. When I enable this the text can then be spoken by the machine voice. Which is uncannily better than it used to be. I can just sit back with my head hung over and have the whole thing run by me one more time. Receiving it a different way. Listening.