Some of you may remember my struggles with MS Word's "find and replace" feature in the past. Did I learn? Nooooo.
Sometimes my characters rebel against their given names and I am forced to change them in the manuscript. It happened again last night - apparently Matt wanted to be called Josh, and who am I to argue with him (particularly since he has those dreamy brown eyes)? I went to "Find: Matt" and" Replace with Josh". It did occur to me that there were a lot more replacements than I thought there would be, but I wasn't sure why until I came to the following sentence: "It doesn't Josher," I said, looking at my watch. Yeah, I know. ANY word with "matt" in it got replaced. It took me over an hour to fix it (and I'm still not sure I got them all).
On this date: In 1847, the Donner Party was rescued.
Hey Cynthia....
ReplyDeleteI just went back and read your email...from the summer...
I saw that you have a blog...I overlooked it the first time.
Mommy dead brain...I know you understand.
Congrats...on finishing your YA...book....
Yeah....
Talk to you soon. Love your blog.
Tracey Huguley
www.traceyhuguley.blogspot.com
As a Josher of fact, I've done this same thing before...not that this will make you feel any better. Oy.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny how much the little things josher?
ReplyDeleteI did this with the name Ama. Amazing.