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- From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Editing on Computer or Hardcopy
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 10:17:03 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- References: <1992Sep8.151457.26205@linus.mitre.org>
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- In a previous article, troyer@mitre.org (Tom Royer) says:
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- >I edit hardcopy just to keep my klutzy fingers away from the keyboard
- >until I've thought about the changes for a while. I might consider editing
- >"typos" on-line, but the temptation to make substantive (and usually
- >ill-considered) changes is too strong.
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- Yeah, I've wondered why the computer columnist for Writer's Digest is so
- hot on saving what you have every few minutes. I have a backup that does
- that, to a separate file (and very useful, too), but he talks as if he
- means saving -over- your original.
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- One of the things I like about word processors is that you can fiddle
- around with your ms. -without- affecting the original version, there on
- the disk. Then you can save STORY.2 or STORY.TOO or whatever, and have
- time to think. You can also save those beautiful but irrelevant paragraphs
- you cut (STORY.CUT), and fool yourself into thinking you'll use them later.
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- This is especially useful for poems. I often wind up with dozens of
- versions on paper and eight or ten on disk, fiddling here and there, and
- printing out one-word changes to read aloud. It's a mess, but an easily
- cleaned-up one at the end, and it's such a security blanket.
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- Bonita Kale
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