This pencil thing
23/5/09 22:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkemeraldsEditing a printed manuscript with a pencil is turning out to be amazingly useful.
I know, I know, go ahead and laugh at my amazement. It's been years since I last did it and I forgot, okay?
It took me a while to figure out what the big difference is: I can X-out whole paragraphs, whole PAGES, if I want to, and they're still there! It makes it much easier to be ruthless, and ruthlessness is what my damn prose needs.
Thanks to LazerQuick and Pentel, I'm making fantastic strides in tightening up and clarifying this little145,000 135,000 123,400 word behemoth.
I know, I know, go ahead and laugh at my amazement. It's been years since I last did it and I forgot, okay?
It took me a while to figure out what the big difference is: I can X-out whole paragraphs, whole PAGES, if I want to, and they're still there! It makes it much easier to be ruthless, and ruthlessness is what my damn prose needs.
Thanks to LazerQuick and Pentel, I'm making fantastic strides in tightening up and clarifying this little