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Editing? paper or electronic?

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Richelle Mead:
I do both.  It usually takes me a while before I'm satisfied with the electronic copy, after all the writing and rewriting.  When I'm satisfied with it, I'll do a clean read of it on the computer, then I print it out and find I notice a lot more things in hard copy.  I mark it up, then it's back to the computer for editing!

Syntopicon:
I like both.  There is something satisfying about drawing all over my work.

Murphy's Stunt Double:

--- Quote from: RMatthewWare on December 04, 2007, 10:46:07 PM ---I don't do a hard copy edit because printing 200 pages of manuscript on my dinky printer is expensive.  The first way I edited was to have two windows up on my computer, one with the first draft, and another blank one to type on.  Now I've figured out MS Word's Track Changes and Review features (version 2007), and I love it.  Whatever I delete gets crossed out in red so I can mark that I'm cutting it, but retain the material if I want it.  Whatever I add get added in red, so I know what I've added.  And I can put comment balloons on the side if I feel like I need to rewrite a section later.  It's a better system than what I had and I've gotten through this revision faster and felt more confident in what I've written.

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OOOO... you are my editing God.... I liiiiiiike!... where do I learn the ways of the Word Track??

Seriously -  I usually print out short runs of 2 - 20 pages in hard copy... there's just something about my eyes that can see a typo on paper, that disregards the same on screen..

But something someone else said too, made good sense... I have a Toshiba Portege, and I do have the capacity to red pen on screen... why haven't I thought of doing that in the past??

Dom:
I prefer to do hard copy with a pen to make corrections, or mark things, but without a printer, that's difficult.

So I typically read on screen, and edit there.  I don't make use of the Word functions for editing; small line-edits typically are pretty bad if I cut them, so I don't want to save them.  When I cut something that's a paragraph or more, then I cut the paragraph or whatever, open a new document, and save it there.  That way I can go back and mine, if need be.

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