What Helps with Editing

Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - W

Telling myself I’ll only look at a single page. It gets me started and I remind myself that doing a page today spares future Yumna having to edit that page tomorrow.
Looking at the project on paper. It allows flipping back and forth, which gives me a sense of how it all sits together.
Reading aloud helps me with tricky parts. Hearing the words helps me simplify.
Sanding as an analogy. In the Living in Translation panel, Chris Andrews uses the analogy of sanding to describe going over a piece of writing. The analogy helps me with the edits of The Theory of Everything. Just go a page at a time. Sand again. And then again.
Intensity. I prefer to go through a project in solid blocks of time in an intense period, not allowing a final reading to drag out more than a week so that all parts of the book are fresh.

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