Printing Pages.

by ELSIE BYRON
14th October 2018

Hi all. Is it just me or does anyone else still print off pages of their ms? I do this as an indication of how far I've come and how much I've done since starting. I compare it to picking a novel up and reading it on paper against flicking on Kindle and reading it on a screen. For me to see my work in print, even by me, makes it feel real. Am I the odd one?

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Thank you Paul for me it makes more sense to print my work, glad I'm not the only one.

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ELSIE BYRON
15/10/2018

If you are odd then I have a sneaky feeling there is a lot of us on this site Elsie.

I print mine off so my wife can read and check for any silly spelling errors, you know: to, too, from, form, all that kind of typo thing and of course my punctuation. Then the harder ones to take, such as "I don't get this part" I never like those because in my head those bits are perfect, obviously not! but still I suppose it helps.

So no I don't think you are odd.

Regards Paul Garside

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