#ScribesAndMakers 18: Ever read out loud? I "give readings" fairly often in my author life, for which I read aloud my own work in a performance sort of way. I also read it out loud as part of the editing/revision process. But outside my writing life, I only only read out loud if it's poetry or if I'm sharing the reading with someone else (reading a passage to a friend, reading a book to a child).