I’m flailing around trying to get this scene, this important plot point done in my NaNoWriMo story. I have a pretty clear idea, ok, really just a pretty fuzzy idea of what’s going to happen and it’s not going very well. I’m progressing rather glacially. Like a few sentences or paragraphs at a time.
Today at lunch I did make some progress but I thought about bringing a minor character back in so I went back looking for a reminder of how he was described and just to re-read the conversation between my main and him. I did what any normal being would do – I did a search for the character’s name. I went back up through the file looking at instances where his name appeared.
Then I pondered a bit on the story and then I got distracted by this:
Click on the photo to see a better view of what was going on. I added the red arrows to help you see. That’s the right edge of my BBEdit window over by the scroll bar. See those little red lines that the arrows are pointing at? Those are instances of the name I searched for. If I clicked on one or near one of those lines – BLAM! – there was an instance of the name.
Suddenly I didn’t care so much about my piddly advances in the story because I’m a total geek and love finding a new feature in software that is both über cool AND useful.
BBEdit. Because it doesn’t suck.
You get into great stuff. The story moves on anyway. What more could one wish kfor.