{"id":16462,"date":"2017-11-01T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=16462"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:20:38","slug":"it-doesnt-suck-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=16462","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn’t Suck…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2011, a friend encouraged me to check out NaNoWriMo<\/a> – you should do it! – and I was checking it out, realized I needed a free account to see how it really worked, did that and while I became enamored of all the bar charting and statistical side of the writing process, my go-to word processing and code writing software popped up a message telling me there was an update.<\/p>\n

Sure, go ahead and do that, I clicked.<\/p>\n

About the time that I sat back thinking – I have no idea what I’d ever write 50,000 words about – BBEdit finished installing and unlike any other update it had done to that point, it opened a new blank window.<\/p>\n

I looked at it and began to write. And a few weeks later I had accumulated 50000 words and won!<\/a><\/p>\n

If I ever get to write a “thank you for your support” page for my book(s), I will be including BBEdit because I just love these guys and their software. It’s easy to use and straightforward. Being a text editor means I don’t get tied up with how it looks, how big the margins and tabs are etc etc. I just write. I can do global search and replace. I can click on a word and see how it’s distributed throughout my document. <\/p>\n

Thank you Barebones guys for BBEdit. My novel thanks you. My websites thank you. And I thank you. And I thank you for continuing on with updating this fine software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And we never had this conversation:<\/p>\n

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