50 You Have a Book in You Make the door easy, friendly, inviting, and compelling so that the reader desperately wants to enter your story. For the reader, it opens the door to your world. So there has to be somethingin that world of yours that the reader really wants to know about and take part in. Print Out Your Work and Read It Aloud You can’t get in touch with what you’ve put on the page just by reading your work on your computer screen. After all, a computer screen is not a page! So you’ve got to print out a hard copy in order to see what’s really there. 吀栀at’s not the end, however. You should also read your words aloud, preferably to someone you know and trust—but not too well. By reading your work aloud to a comparative stranger, you’ll really notice what’s working and what’s not. You’ll get puzzled looks from your audi- ence at things that seemed perfectly clear to you when you wrote them. You’ll also get a positive response from passages that you weren’t sure about. 吀栀e one thing you don’t want is the kind of blanket praise that you’re likely to get from a very close friend. So be careful in choosing your listener. 吀栀e master of this process is Jim Trelease, who talks to hundreds of thousands of people annually about his book Read Aloud. Jim says the best thing you can do for children and adults alike to improve their relationships,