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Loved your two books. Gave them to 2 of our granddaughters. They are most anxious for you third book to come out. Fantastic work. So pleased for you. Enjoyed seeing your Mom and George. Hope we get to see more of them. Again,Wow. And to think we knew you when
Dear L. K. Gardner-Griffie,
Just happened across your “love / hate” blog about using evil editing software, which happens to be our Editor. Liked your discussion very much. I have a comment and a request.
Comment, perhaps unnecessary: In addition to whacking Editor for fussing with contractions, there are many other custom-tailoring moves to reduce tedium, especially for fiction writers. The Word document “Using Editor Efficiently” that we sent along with Editor goes into detail–there’s a copy in your C:\Program Files\Serenity Software folder–and Chapter 4, section 7 of the Manual describes how to make a simple “exclude list” of words and phrases you want Editor to stop harassing you about. Custom-tailoring the program to suit your style can cut down considerably on the volume of irrelevant or unnecessary USAGE comments. Scanning some pages of USAGE output on your work can help identify things that Editor fusses about but you need no reminding of, and Change USAGE Settings and an exclude list can quiet the program temporarily or forever. You may have explored these avenues already.
Request: I’m interested in your spreadsheet method of organizing the output. As you can imagine, some of our customers who use the Standard Version (not the Word Add-In) are frustrated by the inability to change screen dimensions of the output files or to cut and paste their contents without working through a secondary procedure like saving output files as plain text (.txt) and importing them into Notepad or Word.
Could you give us a little more information about how you use the spreadsheet method, and maybe attach a snip/sample from a spreadsheet to an e-mail? If it’s an easily followed procedure, we’d like to suggest it to customers as an option–with acknowledgment credit to you, of course.
Customers’ ingenuity has proved fruitful for us in the past. A message from one who wrote a simple Word macro to number sentences temporarily in Word, so he could skip the DRAFT stage entirely, was the inspiration for our Word Add-In upgrade. (We credit him in our acknowledgments, and he gave us full permission to use his idea. Sophisticating his macro and overlaying USAGE comments on the sentence-numbered Word page were our additions.)
Thanks for your kind remarks about facing the evil necessity armed with an Editorial sword and buckler.
Regards,
John Thiesmeyer
Co-developer
editor@serenity-software.com