It's not to say that I don't love to EDIT my own stuff, because I do. I wouldn't have printed out my manuscript if I hadn't (and I did - all 100 pages of it). There is something to say about the track changes feature in Microsoft Word: you edit, it shows what you edit, you accept the changes without having to think twice about them. It's easy, it's breezy, (it's Covergirl!) it's efficient. But I certainly wouldn't have worked as hard as I did on my edits if I had only done them on the computer. Putting them down on the page, the kinesthetic aspect of the project makes me happy and makes me consider my words more. I have heard that the brain functions differently when looking at the screen vs. looking at the page, and while I can't provide evidence of that, I can certainly vouch that I am a better editor when faced with the printed page.
But it certainly frustrates me that there is no "easy" button when it comes to transferring my edits from the printed page to the digital one. It is slow going, and already all of the work is done for me! It is silly, but I would love to hand this over to someone else to do it for me. However, this kind of grunt work is something I will be doing and so should be doing on my own.
So here I am, sitting in a coffee shop with my brother while he fills out job applications (and complains about it every five minutes), editing my story.
My current goal is to finish this before I go to Oxford in two weeks. Well, 17 days. Back to the edits I go!
