Hard Copy or Screen?

I'm deep in revisions this week. I promised my agent I'd have my revisions finished for her ASAP. And the good news is that they are going well. But this time I decided to revise a little differently. Sure I went through looking for plot holes, overall flow, consistency, and all that other good stuff. But I also printed my manuscript out. Now I don't normally do this because--well, that's a lot of ink. But this time I had to look for things that I needed to actually see in my hands, not on a screen.

So during this hard copy revision, I got out my yellow highlighter, purple pen, and colored sticky flags. I used my orange sticky flags to mark the passage of time. Each day was labeled where it began. This really helped me see the time span in my manuscript and make sure I had everything planned out correctly and realistically. I used pink sticky flags to mark important events that occurred in relation to my MC. (I can't give you more details than that without telling you specifically about my manuscript.) This really helped because during WriteOnCon, I learned that you are supposed to have something happen every three pages. Now, I didn't mark all my events--only the major ones--but I was able to physically see how often things happened to my MC or because of my MC. Very helpful!

I used my highlighter for recurring words. Nothing shows you how much you use a word better than highlighting it. And since I couldn't find a red pen, I used my purple pen to mark corrections--crossing out things I wanted to delete and writing in things I wanted to add to the manuscript.

It went really well. I'm a visual person so seeing my revisions like this helped me get a better hold on my manuscript. I'm definitely using this technique on my next manuscript.

How do you revise? Do you need to "see" your revisions in hard copy or are you strictly a revise on screen person?