Drafting on paper beat my laptop for the whole first rewrite

I spent 3 months editing my novel directly in Scrivener and kept chasing my own tail. Last week I printed the whole messy draft, grabbed a red pen, and worked through it on the kitchen table in four sittings. Something about seeing the pages spread out made the plot holes obvious in a way the screen never did. The laptop version had me stuck on sentence polish, but paper forced me to look at scenes as blocks. Maybe it's just my brain, but the physical stack made cutting 80 pages feel easier to commit to. Has anyone else found that switching tools actually changes how you see your own rough draft?

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