My neck has finally convinced me that I spend too many hours hunched over a laptop, so last night I printed out the first sixty pages of my WIP which has been through eight rounds of refinement. (I have long intended to have a revision round that was solely "read through a printed copy" but hadn't done that one yet.)
I thought the WIP was getting pretty good, until I printed it out!
Now, hard copy always read different to me than electronic, but holy cow! The number of errors I am spotting on draft #9 has me laughing, then crying, then stomping off, then coming back to tackle another page. Every kind of error imaginable - POV, comma splices, paragraph breaks, weak word choice, Everything!
(So, I decided to share the frustration and discovery with fellow writers in the office party!)
Well, this is probably too much laptop time for my neck, so back to the hard copy.
I am *certain* draft 10 will be good. (ha! Right!)
I thought the WIP was getting pretty good, until I printed it out!
Now, hard copy always read different to me than electronic, but holy cow! The number of errors I am spotting on draft #9 has me laughing, then crying, then stomping off, then coming back to tackle another page. Every kind of error imaginable - POV, comma splices, paragraph breaks, weak word choice, Everything!
(So, I decided to share the frustration and discovery with fellow writers in the office party!)
Well, this is probably too much laptop time for my neck, so back to the hard copy.
I am *certain* draft 10 will be good. (ha! Right!)
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