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RE: How I edit my own work - Plus a story to read too - 10
That's extremely interesting, reading both raw and edited works. I've never really looked at authoring like that. My dad wrote all his works on an old fashioned typewriter, so editing was - literally - binning a page and reworking it.
The effort, especially if the changes required were a ways back from where he'd got to, could lead to a lot of waste paper!
In his last year or so of life he started using a Mac, and learned fast and well, but never - i think - really grasped how much could be done. He still, basically, binned and rewrote. I personally find this - your - method very good. If i ever write the couple of stories i have in my head, i'll borrow it, if i may.
I think I'd still like to help you get your dad's stuff back on the shelves. Even if it's only advising you how to do this - you're clever enough, you'll pick it up.
I'm still not quite sure how I do it all... that's why this method is the easiest way for me - how it was, how it is now.
I also think it wouldn't be fair to show someone else's book going through the editing process 'live' like this, so it's perfect that I wrote this a while ago.
I remember typing on a manual typewriter! It's so much easier on the computer now - much less "binning of paper", and so much faster, lol.
Save the trees! Buy a 'pooter! ;)