127pp 40K words
Doing a printout of Ocean's first 29 chapters today so I can do some physical editing with a pen.
For those who don't know, I sometimes write in a bound journal with a pen or pencil, and I sometimes write on my computer in a private blog.
I'm not able to put the difference between the two into words, but there is definitely a difference.
When it comes to editing, this book has been in flux from day one. I regularly go back to previous chapters and tweak them.
Printing it out is different. I can make notes in the margins, write whole sections on the blank facing page and decide later whether to add them, leaf back or forwards through the manuscript to find continuity issues, fold corners, all kinds of stuff.
There are surely ways to do all of the above digitally, but my brain works better this way.
For those who don't know, I sometimes write in a bound journal with a pen or pencil, and I sometimes write on my computer in a private blog.
I'm not able to put the difference between the two into words, but there is definitely a difference.
When it comes to editing, this book has been in flux from day one. I regularly go back to previous chapters and tweak them.
Printing it out is different. I can make notes in the margins, write whole sections on the blank facing page and decide later whether to add them, leaf back or forwards through the manuscript to find continuity issues, fold corners, all kinds of stuff.
There are surely ways to do all of the above digitally, but my brain works better this way.
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