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I bet. I'm in the first generation raised on Mavis Beacon, and I've been writing in malleable text environments most of my life. The temptation to edit as I go can be overwhelming, and I sometimes envy the writers who were forced by their tools to work in actual drafts.

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What's whiteout for if not edit as you go? I used so much of it back in the day.

Ha, now that you mention it, I remember my mom using a lot of white-out too.

My first draft of a story is always in pen. Followed by a very cringey typing it in.

The cringe is very real. You have to push through and fix it in the next draft. :)

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