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[mizkit]

I am doing something New & Strange with this revision.

Typically when I’m working, I have Word’s display set to 85% of full size, and I have the style set to normal, so there are no particularly noticeable page breaks. I really loathe the print view, where each page is wholly separate. It throws off my mojo. But for this revision, that’s how I’m

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[wedschilde]

hands you thread and needle. :::hugs:::

[gows]

Nip, tuck, WHACK WHACK WHACK.

*giggles, thinking of Team Whack-A-Mole*

[desperance]

It means I’m looking at a different screen, and one of the things I’ve come to notice is that when it comes to revisions and editing, changing the font, the line spacing, the margins, all of that, can really help, because my eyes are already accustomed to the patterns the words make in my usual viewing style

When I'm handing out advice (which I do all too frequently, to anyone who asks), I always always say this. It's the quickest way to spot those typos and awkwardnesses that otherwise inexplicably slip by; the text becomes unfamiliar, and your eye can't glide over it so easily.

Um? This is pure theory, I worked it out on the basis that I kept finding things in proofs that I'd never spotted in revisions. I still never, ever do it my own self. I am such a bad example...

[mizkit]

I actually *do* do it my own self now, because it really does help. Try it with the manuscript you're working on, once you finish the draft! I'll remind you. :)

[desperance]

Deal. Six weeks', two months' time? Something like that. I'll remind you to remind me. *g*

[mizkit]

With any luck I'll be printing a manuscript out around then too, so we can remind each other! :)

[jemck]

This is fascinating - not least as an example of the different ways writers - and it would seem editors - work

[mizkit]

Oh, good, I am glad this is interesting to someone