A simple tool for writers.
I was playing around with the writing program I just installed on my mac, and discovered a very useful feature called Voice. It was a little computerized voice that can read over anything you write. If you have this feature available on your computer, you should give it a try. Even in a digital voice, when I listened to it as it read a chapter of mine outloud, I could hear the strengths and weaknesses that I hadn't picked up before. You'll discover that there is a big difference in a piece that you wrote when it is read fluently to you, rather than read to yourself. Give it a try; it might help.