Writing and Editing

So it goes. Writing and editing every morning.

Last night I wrote my first feature piece for The Departed. It pretty much took me half the day to write it, but it turned out pretty well. I printed it out this morning, and brought it with me to Simon's Coffee Shop to edit.

Since I write and edit a lot of material online, lately I'm really digging the process of printing out my articles and editing them from the printout. There's something tangible about that. It's like, the pen is permanent, and the computer (where things can magically appear and disappear when you're making edits) is ephemeral.

Editing from a printout just feels right. Maybe it's because every crossed-out word, every misspelled word, every new sentence... essentially every change... is documented.