Writing Book 6 · Lesson 3

Checked and kept

A notebook is only worth keeping if nothing has been removed from it.

What it is

A checked page is one you have read back before handing in. Kept means it stays in your notebook in order, with nothing torn out — because the value of a notebook is that you can go back to it, and a notebook with pages missing cannot be gone back to.

Watch it built

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Read your page back before handing it in.
read it
2
Fix what you find in the skipped line, not by scribbling over the work.
fix above the line
3
Leave it in place, in order. Nothing is torn out.
kept in order
Remember
Read it back. Fix in the skipped line. Never tear a page out.
Ask yourself: “Could I go back to this page in March and use it?”

Remember

Read it back. Fix in the skipped line. Never tear a page out.

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