AUTHORS – What do YOU prefer when editing – Paper or Screen?
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I had a question today from a lovely lady in Japan asking whether I usually edit my books on paper. I had put up a photo of my morning desk
This is what a 580 page novel at the edit stage looks like!
(which was embarrassing, but I can cope), and prominent on it was the pile of paper that will be my next novel: BLOOD ON THE SAND, published by Simon & Schuster. Jolly good story and an excellent read!
Yes, it looks hideously old fashioned. Why on earth would anyone edit on paper.
Actually there are many reasons why it’s far better to edit on paper.
First and foremost, you can have paper in your hand. For me, that means I can get up from my desk, walk to the kitchen and work on the table. Or I can carry the book into the sitting room, where the…
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What? Doesn’t everyone edit on paper? 🙂 I also do both. I like the paper version better though. I like seeing how it patterns in paragraphs, I like not having the glare of a screen and, I like that I don’t have to worry about how long a battery charge is going to last when I end up in places like the great outdoors to edit.
Each to their own….:)
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I do both actually. Electronic editing is faster and the balloon comments are handy to explain issues. But I always print out the ms and do a hard copy read because I see and hear the work differently. Also, I take the ms away from my desk and read it near window light. There’s something about the relocation that refreshes my eye and my comprehension on the page. In the old days, the rule was to read a piece three times, and then as a final read, we used to do “white ruler reads” which consisted of using a white ruler or flat piece of white paper and reading the work line for line—sometimes reading the lines in reverse to catch errors.
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Sounds like a good system to me Paula 😀
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I guess that being blind I am unusual in that I have no option other than to edit on screen as I can not see the printed page (my screen reader, Jaws translates text into speech and braille). I suspect that if I could read print, I would print off hard copy for editing purposes. Kevin
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But you HEAR the dialog and that has it’s own advantages Kevin – the main disadvantage is you can’t detect possible spelling errors.
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