Back to Edit Inputtin

I've been back to editing the digital file based on my hand editing of the last printed copy. Everything is gong well enough. The biggest problem is trying to understand what I was trying to accomplish months ago when I made the edits.

I drew lines and arrows, crossed out words, put numbers on the pages that referred to passages on the back of the page, and at times wrote nearly illegible words. Sometimes I will delete the words that I had crossed out only to see that I had later written "ok", meaning "don't delete". Opps. UNDO. When the moving of passages and number of arrows is more than two I struggle to make sense of anything. I have ended a night of editing when when I reach a page with a large amount of revisions on it. The sight of it just makes my head hurt.

I've had to learn to not second guess myself. Sometimes when initially upon reading an edit it won't make sense. So I break my smooth editing rhythm and try to figure out what I was thinking. That's typically when I realize I changed around the end of the sentence (or paragraph) to line up with the earlier edits. Every occasion that I have stopped has resulted in a later revelation that I had made the right decision to begin with.

The worst rhythm break is my handwriting. Sometimes I'm short on space and had to cram in the letters. Sometimes it seems that I was just lazy. Every time I run across such a mess I say to myself that I'll be more careful next time. I'm sure that I won't.