Confessions of an Unrepentant Word Nerd by Gabriel Valjan

 

Hi, my name is Gabriel. I’m a word nerd, and a repeat offender with the words THATand HAD.

Criminal Minds [Chorus]: Hello, Gabriel.

Today, I’d like to talk about my dysfunctional relationship with these two words that (oops, did it already) so plague my work that (d’oh) if it were not for Microsoft’s Edit-Find, my manuscript would be infested with these two blights. Once upon a time I had (eeks) identified 700 instances of THAT in a manuscript. Edit Find Next ignited two...