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Printing out your work and editing by hand

i have never been able to edit my poems successfully until I realised I needed to print them out on paper and scribble over them with a coloured pen. editing on your computer is soulless and never works!

@mouse

Oct 17, 2024

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@ggg

I need to remember this 🙏 🕯️— every time i print a zine and sit down and read it and notice 30 spelling mistakes that were invisible on my laptop

Oct 18, 2024

@joepeters

I'm one foot in hell and one foot out due to awful handwriting: I sadly type first drafts of poems. I find it impossible to read poetry on a computer screen and I always revise and provide feedback in pen

Oct 18, 2024

@mouse

joepeters I also have awful handwriting, I think it adds to the poetry tbh hehe

Oct 18, 2024

@mattshawsome

Yes! I'm constantly printing everything, especially my stuff in need of an edit. Genuinely have even considered a portable battery powered printed to take with my while traveling so I can always get those words out in physical form. (One of the lost benefits of the typewriter era!)

Oct 17, 2024

@mattshawsome

mattshawsome *printed = printer

Oct 17, 2024

@marxinista

did this for my thesis in undergrad — life-changing!!

Oct 17, 2024

@taterhole

Handwriting is a MUST for poetry

Oct 17, 2024

@mouse

taterhole handwriting or notes app are the only way. but for some reason my brain for a while didn’t see editing as the same creative process as writing in the first place? A mistake!

Oct 17, 2024

@taterhole

mouse so true I do write many of my drafts in the notes app. I’m an edit as I go kind of person and when I write poetry there are sooo many scribbles redactions and arrows with bubbles where I add things lol it’s a mess and it does not work for prose…

Oct 17, 2024

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hand writing the first draft

if i'm not on a time crunch, i will always try to hand write the first draft of all my creative writing projects. this makes me take it slower, think more about the words i'm putting down. it also acts as the first round of editing whenever i type it into my computer so i'm one step closer to a finished project. there's some so much more satisfying about being able to look at the progress made on a story that is hand written rather than typed in a computer.