An alternative to eating carpet?

My latest acquisition from the library was by Gotham’s Writers’ Workshop. Writing Fiction. A Practical Guide for New York’s Acclaimed Creative Writing School, edited by Alexander Steele. The chapter titled Revision: Real writers revise, identified the difficulty of editing your own work and I know I’m far too close to mine. It goes on to suggest printing out your manuscript in a different, but readable, font. I’d eat carpet if I thought it would help, so I’m off to give it a go.