Now that I’m done with the revisions of Finders Keepers and it’s off to the agent I’ve been telling you about, it’s time to do a little clean up.
As us writer dudes do, we tend to accumulate a lot of paper. A lot. Just ask Liz about that (actually, for my sakes, better not!). Well, now it’s time for me to figure out what I need for my files and what I don’t, as I’ve got just piles and piles of edited pages with little handwritten marks denoting what I changed and what I corrected. In the enNow that I’m done with the revisions of Finders Keepers and it’s off to the agent I’ve been telling you about, it’s time to do a little clean up.
As us writer dudes do, we tend to accumulate a lot of paper. A lot. Just ask Liz about that (actually, for my sakes, better not!). Well, now it’s time for me to figure out what I need for my files and what I don’t, as I’ve got just piles and piles of edited pages with little handwritten marks denoting what I changed and what I corrected. In the end, most of the pages I can chuck in the garbage, because I don’t have a lot of need for a page that has the word "the" circled and marked up with the word "then," noting that I left off one letter.
Thing is, I’ve got my name and phone number on every page, and as identity theft is the real deal (Liz got nailed by it–twice–years back), I’m paranoid about leaving info around. So I’ve been tearing off the top of page after page after page, just to shred that personal info. Naturally, I’ll tear 5-10 sheets at a time, but still, it’s time consuming. I don’t just shred the whole page because that’s a lot of shredding, and it fills up the shredder bin too quickly, and it’s a pain to take off the metal top with the shredding gear, take out the garbage bag in the bin, replace the bag, and then put the gears back on top. It’s like emptying the lawn mower.
So now that I’ve got piles and pile of little pages, from my big pages, I’ve got a ton of shredding to do.
And you thought editing pages was easy …
