She is not alone in doing things that way; I made my writerghoulie (her term for herself) ship me a hardcopy of her first self-revised draft of her latest (http://www.ajaalto.com/?attachment_id=2157) manuscript.
... which I proceeded not to make a single red mark upon, because, as you noted, there were Things What Need Fixin' at a level beyond what a line-level corrective pass would warrant. Several paragraphs' worth of questions, suggestions, and "you obviously cut a scene that explains what the fuck is going on to get to this point" notes were emailed to the author.
Once the structural problems are addressed and it's time to buff and polish it? Oh hell yes - I even bought a new pack of my preferred brand of red pens for the occasion. (In the job for The Company That Does Not Deserve To Be Named, I spent eight hours a day with a red pen, a reading lamp, and a lot of KMFDM on my headset... so, yeah, even us pixel-stained technopeasants (to quote the epithet thrown at lisamantchev) reach for implements of analog destruction when they're the right tool for the job. :-)
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... which I proceeded not to make a single red mark upon, because, as you noted, there were Things What Need Fixin' at a level beyond what a line-level corrective pass would warrant. Several paragraphs' worth of questions, suggestions, and "you obviously cut a scene that explains what the fuck is going on to get to this point" notes were emailed to the author.
Once the structural problems are addressed and it's time to buff and polish it? Oh hell yes - I even bought a new pack of my preferred brand of red pens for the occasion. (In the job for The Company That Does Not Deserve To Be Named, I spent eight hours a day with a red pen, a reading lamp, and a lot of KMFDM on my headset... so, yeah, even us pixel-stained technopeasants (to quote the epithet thrown at