What does a blog post sound like?

As I write, I hear the keys on my keyboard pressing down – the sounds are fast, rhythmic, comforting. I hear the whirr of a hard drive in the background, and the occasional car walk past. Every so often, bird song comes into the foreground; I hear the calls of birds in the distance now. I hear my breath as I breathe in and out. I take a deep breath. I keep writing.This week I wrote down a question in my notes: what does a blog post sound like? I reasoned that there are two perspectives from which this question may be considered: the reader’s and the writer’s. The writer hears what they hear as they write; the reader hears what they read as they read.In my creative writing module at university, one of the tips we were given to help us revise our work was to read our writing out loud. This has proved to be remarkably effective for me and has become one of my favourite editing techniques 1. When I read my work out loud, I hear the words: the plosives that I have planned, the clunky parts…