Bah. I’m going to print out the hearthcraft book as it stands, and read through it that way. I’ll be better able to see things that are missing or need to be moved, things that can be linked properly, and sketchy parts that way. The computer is doing nothing for me. (Well, it’s downloading things, but you know what I mean.) To avoid Tragic Printing Errors I’ll do it chapter by chapter, and via manual duplex to use both sides of the paper. While I like having a blank sheet of paper opposite the page I’m working on so I can make notes, I don’t think I have 240 pages of paper lying around at the moment. Or maybe I do… I think I have a ream of buff-coloured paper I used for a project filed away in my cupboard. I will check on that.

I don’t know if I should print out the PDFs of the pregnancy book page proofs or not. I don’t want to; it would be a huge waste of paper. But I’ve never handled them electronically before; I’ve always done page proofs with red pencil on paper. I don’t anticipate many errors; there rarely are. And my project editor has said that I can either list the errors in a memo and e-mail it to her, or print the specific pages out and fax/mail them back to her. I’ll try doing them them on the computer first. I’ll bring them with me on the trip, along with the latest version of the hearthcraft book. If I can do a few chapters of the proofs while I’m gone that frees up more writing time once I’m home, and reviewing proofs is easier to do in hour-long or chapter-long chunks when away from home than writing is.

There may still be sun in the living room in which to work.