...and print.
Nov. 6th, 2015 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIt's not real, until it's in hard copy.
That used to be my mantra: how could one ever trust pixels and disks, be they hard or floppy? Nothing was safe, unless it was on paper. Which being true, I used to print my fiction page by page as I wrote it; which led to charming little discontinuities, stutters between one page and the next, where I had revised yesterday's work but not bothered to reprint it because it was just a line or two at the bottom of the last page...
But these days, where storage is cloudy and so even less reliable, I no longer bother to print page-by-page, nor even day-by-day. But I do still like hard copy, and I do revise on hard copy; so I tend to print out chapters as I go, if only to show my work. (One of the joys - one of the lost joys - of writing on a typewriter was watching the stack of paper grow beside the machine. I do still miss that, apparently.)
Which is a long-way-round of saying that I just finished Chapter Five of Three Twins at the Crater School. and have printed it out. M'wife will read it, and then m'webmistress, and I hope shortly after that I can post it for m'Patreon sponsors to enjoy...
That used to be my mantra: how could one ever trust pixels and disks, be they hard or floppy? Nothing was safe, unless it was on paper. Which being true, I used to print my fiction page by page as I wrote it; which led to charming little discontinuities, stutters between one page and the next, where I had revised yesterday's work but not bothered to reprint it because it was just a line or two at the bottom of the last page...
But these days, where storage is cloudy and so even less reliable, I no longer bother to print page-by-page, nor even day-by-day. But I do still like hard copy, and I do revise on hard copy; so I tend to print out chapters as I go, if only to show my work. (One of the joys - one of the lost joys - of writing on a typewriter was watching the stack of paper grow beside the machine. I do still miss that, apparently.)
Which is a long-way-round of saying that I just finished Chapter Five of Three Twins at the Crater School. and have printed it out. M'wife will read it, and then m'webmistress, and I hope shortly after that I can post it for m'Patreon sponsors to enjoy...