I’m interested in using editing software like Grammarly Advice, recommendations please.

[Robingreen678]

Editing software???

Need advice and recommendations
thank you

 

[Todger65]

Editing software???

Need advice and recommendations
thank you

None are perfect. Grammarly is used by a lot of people but has inbuilt anomalies. It can’t decide if it’s or its is correct. Doesn’t matter how many times you change it, it will always suggest the other variation. Some of its other suggestions make no sense at all.

Most are fine, but nothing beats a manual read through and edut.

 

[jsmiam]

Grammarly has one perk for the “low footprint” crowd, which is you can (at your choosing) use it entirely via the website, no need to install it on your device. (Paste it in. And Optionally edit it there via the browser. It’s a few extra steps. Many people don’t care about that, but some of us appreciate that. )

 

[MillieDynamite]

I use both Grammarly and ProWriting Aid. However, in the end, you have to ignore them at times. Especially in dialog, they don't understand thinks y'on'to the way Okies (and other southern states) say you want to, and whatever follows. They both hate triple word contractions, but I like them. Don't use them often, but when I do, I keep them. If your work becomes too perfect, it becomes stiff and often passive. Past Perfect is always passive, but both will recommend the usage. Though of late, they tend to point when you use it as a passive. That's one of those "but this passive" and the back to "change to" and back again.

 

[MartletMartlet]

Hemingway App

 

[gunhilltrain]

Hemingway App

I'll have to check out Hemingway and also ProWriting Aid, but I do know Grammarly. (I have to figure out how many of these things I really need.) Grammarly is useful but it has quirks. As I've said, it's software, not AI, and thus requires judgment calls. The example I've used is that it will change "brown stone" (I was trying to describe the color of a certain rock) to "brownstone," which means a row house, often made of a stone of that color. There are several cases like that where it insists on combining words into one. Generally, however, it is pretty good on spelling.

It helps for comma placement, which I'm not that great on, but there too it may make a poor or incorrect suggestion.

Let's face it, all of grammar depends on context and there may not be complete agreement among everyone on how to do things. Yet I've been running all stories through Grammarly for a long time (another site recommended it - well, insisted that I get it or something like it) and I would suggest trying out the free version at least.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I use both Grammarly and ProWriting Aid. However, in the end, you have to ignore them at times. Especially in dialog, they don't understand thinks y'on'to the way Okies (and other southern states) say you want to, and whatever follows. They both hate triple word contractions, but I like them. Don't use them often, but when I do, I keep them. If your work becomes too perfect, it becomes stiff and often passive. Past Perfect is always passive, but both will recommend the usage. Though of late, they tend to point when you use it as a passive. That's one of those "but this passive" and the back to "change to" and back again.

Yeah, it's really too much to much to expect a program to understand dialect. I guess I could imagine such a thing, but it would be difficult to program it. Could you picture a program that had a setting (Edinburgh slang?) that would allow it to understand Trainspotting?

 

[Athalia]

Hemingway App

Is that the one that makes you sit at a typewriter and bleed?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Is that the one that makes you sit at a typewriter and bleed?

I was going to make a comment about shotguns, but let it pass. We already know all about that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Hemingway cuts the prose the length of a news article in the 1940s.