![]() ![]() Since this is an early draft, I’ll probably end up rewriting the sentence to use swan-dive instead of flew (paints a better picture), but that’s irrelevant. Don’t accept that the software knows better than you. I ignored the suggestion to remove “through the air” after “flew” because it doesn’t sound right to my ear. I landed on his chest, and we both tumbled backward. Everything within me screamed for me to protect my family, and sheer animalistic instinct took over. If he raised that shotgun, he could kill me. “Screw this.” I dropped the bow, squirmed my arms out of the quiver straps, and charged straight at him, bellowing a deep, raspy roar, my voice coiling through the trees, boomeranging right back as I lunged at him.Īrms spread like wings, I flew through the air without considering the consequences. Since scooch is a word, and it’s spelled correctly, I added it to dictionary. This time, the arrow zipped right past him, missing his hip by an inch, maybe two. The razor-tipped arrow sailed through the air, striking the scumbag in the thigh. Shicheii means maternal grandfather in Diné, so I added his name to dictionary like this.Īt fifteen feet away, I stopped, reached behind me, and slid out an arrow. The mobbing technique allowed me enough time to climb down, Shicheii’s quiver slung on my back, his bow held tight in my hand. I accepted the change by clicking the green highlighted area. PWA caught the missing hyphen in dive-bombing. Behind him, Poe emerged, divebombing the intruder, crow feet stomping on his head. Camouflage boots clomped through thick underbrush-twenty feet from the oak tree!-a sawed-off shotgun rested on linebacker shoulders. Where the hell did he go? Once I lowered the binoculars, my blood turned to slush. If my editor suggests the same, then maybe I’ll change it. The software suggested I add “the” before “left,” but it reads fine without it. Mayhem dove on top of him, tackling him, wrestling in the dirt, arms, legs, and fists flailing. Before the scumbag had time to fire a second shot, Mr. Not that I could pinpoint something that small, but it sure didn’t hit him. □Ī gunshot coiled through the dark forest, and he ducked, the bullet sailing over him. Let’s move on to fiction… For this post, I pasted a few paragraphs from the WIP. I clicked “ignore,” but check out the alternatives… The next suggestion was “nice” in the opening paragraph of this post. The program didn’t like the spaces between ProWritingAid, so I accepted the revision by clicking the highlighted suggestion. Since I write thrillers, I keep it set to Thriller, but you can choose any genre of fiction, formal or business writing, other nonfiction, or even email.Īfter PWA processes the document, it’ll show you suggestions for improvement. Once you open the software, click the dropdown menu. When downloaded to Word, the software will read whatever document you’re in. ![]() If you don’t want to download the software, you can use the app instead, which opens in a new tab/window. When you want to use the software, click the button. Also available for Google Docs, Scrivener (desktop), or as an extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. Once the software downloads directly into MS Word, it’ll add a new button to the top ribbon. Whether you use the free or paid version, the first step is to download the software (available for Mac or PC). You may need that second pair of eyes later. See what I’m sayin’? Be careful of which rules you set to ignore. I don’t want to tell the software to ignore the quote rule or it won’t catch places in the narrative where I may have forgotten the end quote. Every single time, ProWritingAid flags the quotation marks for not being closed at the end of each line, even if it’s mid-quote. Only one character has quotes in his chapter headings. You can also tell it not to check for certain things.įor example, I include quotes with some chapter headings as a subtle POV signal to the reader. The more you use it, the less it flags nit-picky things. The nice part of ProWritingAid is its ability to learn. The worst thing a writer can do is to depend on automated software to do all the heavy lifting, or it’ll strip out your voice and style choices. I use ProWritingAid Premium, though like Terry, I take the advice that resonates and ignore what doesn’t. With many editing softwares available, it’s difficult to decide on the one that will work for you. Terry’s last post spurred spawned this one. ![]()
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