What are you trying to achieve? Please give some more detail. Pat. Pending

I've often made single sided boards by cleaning them with steel wool or large rubber "pen erasers", then drawing the lines of the schematic as traces with a permanent marker, then etching it, then soldering all the parts and wires where they go, without drilling any holes. It's like "surface mount" but with the older sizes of parts, such as DIP chips, resistors, diodes, capacitors, etc. Good for making just one of something really quick after breadboarding it and drawing the schematic. I like it better than perf board projects.

. I've soldered wires to traces before, so just about anyone ought to be able to. :) . Make sure the trace and wire are clean (I used a pencil eraser). Use thin, solid wire (telephone wire worked well for me). Work fast - the traces are thin and have a tendency to break, separate from the board, &c when they get hot. . Practice on a junk board first. It's real easy, once you get the hang of it, but you're liable to destroy a few traces before you get good at it.