{"id":356,"date":"2012-02-28T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/the-post-it-note-post\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:50:41","slug":"the-post-it-note-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2012\/02\/the-post-it-note-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-It Note post (AKA editing a novel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-65bS_YnO9ck\/T0yHz32vgJI\/AAAAAAAABAE\/d32IFqWwnJA\/s1600\/My%2BHipstaPrint%2B0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-65bS_YnO9ck\/T0yHz32vgJI\/AAAAAAAABAE\/d32IFqWwnJA\/s320\/My%2BHipstaPrint%2B0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>This is what editing a novel looks like.<\/div>\n<p>Last week I put a photo of my novel manuscript up on Facebook. 540 neat, pristine pages, tidily arranged in a precise block of paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just need to revise my revisions,&#8221; I updated with glee.<\/p>\n<p>Today I give you the revised version of that manuscript. Liberally covered in post-it notes. And scrawly handwriting with such helpful tips as &#8216;write more here&#8217;. With any luck I will remember what that was all about when I go to input all my changes tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I have been through this manuscript so many times I was sure it was clean. I knew I had to add in a few more bits, but I sincerely thought two or three post-its with &#8216;write more here&#8217; would do it. It just goes to show you how different text looks when printed on a page. It is given a weight that it simply does not have on a screen. It reads differently. The eye picks up mistakes and repetition and the fact that there are several phrases that I use over and over again. Written quirks that need to be culled.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I wrote a little post about bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2012\/02\/blog-post-decided-by-twitter.html\">the fun back to blogging<\/a>, as a way of avoiding the Post-it Note post. The one in which I point out the importance of printing out your manuscript and editing it with a red pen and, yes, a million post-it notes. Today, exactly a week later, I&#8217;m writing it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Print your words out. It puts a surprising distance between you and your initial thoughts.\u00a0 A surprising and useful distance. Read your words out loud. Then scrawl all over them with red pen. And mark the place with a Post-It note.<\/p>\n<p>Some things in life, including editing, are best and easiest when done the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, I have depleted all my Post-It Note supplies and must now purchase new ones. Cute ones. Inspirational ones. I would never be without them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what editing a novel looks like. 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