Prowritingaid

[al55]

Hi, just in relation to the AI discussions going on, is the use of prowritingaid okay? I just use it for grammar.

 

[caleb35]

I have no idea if it's okay or not. Depends on precisely what it does and how. Question for you though -- why do you use it? Why not just grammar check your writing yourself?

 

[Writer61]

Hi, just in relation to the AI discussions going on, is the use of prowritingaid okay? I just use it for grammar.

Plenty of us use Grammarly for grammar and spell checking without issues, but don't let it rephrase your words.

I assume that if you follow the same principles, other tools would be OK.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I have no idea if it's okay or not. Depends on precisely what it does and how. Question for you though -- why do you use it? Why not just grammar check your writing yourself?

Can’t answer for OP, but some of us aren’t experts on the Chicago Manual of Style, and need all the help we can get.

 

[Writer61]

Question for you though -- why do you use it? Why not just grammar check your writing yourself?

I use it because after working on a document, I get 'error-blind'.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

From my own experience, using AI assisted tools to identify grammar and other writing issues is fine as long as you only let them identify the issues and you correct them manually.

Even seemingly insignificant alterations such as letting the tool change "there" to "their" automatically for you could cause a rejection.

 

[lovecraft68]

Can’t answer for OP, but some of us aren’t experts on the Chicago Manual of Style, and need all the help we can get.

Not so much under the Keithd name but back when he was SRplt71 there were long stretches that all he would do is cite that manual and when someone would talk about grammar it would be "cite where that is in the manual"

But then in other discussions he'd talk about how fiction doesn't have to follow all the grammatical rules.

I believe the latter to be true in many cases and don't bother worrying about what many see as the bible of grammar.

Hacks like me just tell stories.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Plenty of us use Grammarly for grammar and spell checking without issues, but don't let it rephrase your words.

Another of my author friends,(not using his name without permission) has been using grammarly. He's had a story sent back a few times. He went over it and changed the way grammarly wants to use commas. Next submission, it passed.

 

[Writer61]

Another of my author friends,(not using his name without permission) has been using grammarly. He's had a story sent back a few times. He went over it and changed the way grammarly wants to use commas. Next submission, it passed.

Interesting. Not certain, but I think I have accepted a few Grammarly corrections on commas.

I suspect that, however the AI checks work, there is some tolerance.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I believe the latter to be true in many cases and don't bother worrying about what many see as the bible of grammar.

This is especially true where dialogue is concerned.

People simply don't speak using correct grammar, but I can't count the number of comments I see from Grammar Nazis complaining about the incorrect use of things like adverbs in a story, and it is almost always related to what someone is saying rather than the narrative.

"She and I had sex in my car" may be grammatically correct but almost any normal guy would say, "Her and I had sex in my car".

 

[ElectricBlue]

"She and I had sex in my car" may be grammatically correct but almost any normal guy would say, "Her and I had sex in my car".

That's a very strange usage to my ear, "Her and I." That might be an American normal, it's not an Australian idiom, at least not in my neck of the woods. We'd more likely say, "We had sex in my car."

 

[Writer61]

That's a very strange usage to my ear, "Her and I." That might be an American normal, it's not an Australian idiom, at least not in my neck of the woods. We'd more likely say, "We had sex in my car."

To my UK ears too.

 

[Bramblethorn]

That's a very strange usage to my ear, "Her and I." That might be an American normal, it's not an Australian idiom, at least not in my neck of the woods. We'd more likely say, "We had sex in my car."

And "she and I" would be more natural to my ear than "her and I", for the same reason that we'd say "she had sex" not "her had sex". The presence of another person doesn't change that.

 

[Writer61]

Stolen from another thread:

Are you using Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Quillbot or similar software, or allowing Microsoft Word grammar check to change your words? Many modern writing packages incorporate AI. Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human fantasies. While we do not have a policy against using tools to help with the writing process (i.e. sp, grammar check, etc.), we do ask that all work published on Literotica be created primarily by a human. If you are using a grammar check program to review your work so that you can make changes (as a spellcheck, to flag punctuation, review grammar, and/or occasionally as a thesaurus), that should be fine. If you are allowing a grammar check program to “rewrite” your words or rephrase your text, that may cross the line into AI generated text/stories (since substantial parts of the final draft may not be written by you).

Obviously, ProWritingAid is one of the tools listed.

You can see what is allowed, and what isn't.

 

[alohadave]

That's a very strange usage to my ear, "Her and I." That might be an American normal, it's not an Australian idiom, at least not in my neck of the woods. We'd more likely say, "We had sex in my car."

Yeah, it sounds weird to this American.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I've been using ProWritingAid for a year with no issues. Primarily for spelling (typos) and comma usage. Occasionally it will flag a wonky sentence but I make those corrections myself rather than let the AI do it. It's a recommended tool.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

That's a very strange usage to my ear, "Her and I." That might be an American normal, it's not an Australian idiom, at least not in my neck of the woods. We'd more likely say, "We had sex in my car."

Yeah, I probably could have found a better example of her/she pronouns, but the point is that speech often doesn't follow grammar "rules".

 

[designatedvictim]

"She and I had sex in my car" may be grammatically correct but almost any normal guy would say, "Her and I had sex in my car".

I was all set to thumbs-up your post because I completely agree that in dialog, it's fine to show improper grammar.

Sorry, but that example just set my teeth on edge. <Shudder>