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Grammarly delivers information both line-by-line and in summary form. I bought an annual subscription last March, and I like the way it follows me around the web to check my WordPress blog posts, my Google Docs, Gmail, and comment and feedback forms on others' blog posts and articles. It also corrects my social media p... |
Grammarly editing software offers line-by-line editing and a summary review. |
$9.95/mo or $99.95/yr or $149.95/2 years |
Instead of your story's sun being "hot," you'll find choices like blazing, sizzling, fiery, torrid, punishing, merciless, or raging. Just put a word in the left side and click the dictionary you want to use to get idea-generating suggestions on the right side. |
Check out the video tour and I think you'll be impressed. An audio page enables you to collect your thoughts or music. For creative writers and songwriters. |
Free online or $35 annually, 2-year $55, 3-year $70, Lifetime $120 |
Create your own rules and house-style |
ProWritingAid offers both a Chrome plugin that follows you around the web to check your spelling and grammar and a browser-based checker that deeply evaluates your writing. ProWritingAid's in-depth reports have definitely made me a better writer. As an additional bonus, the reports also help me communicate better with ... |
ProWritingAid displays helpful suggestions to improve your writing |
ProWritingAid also offers a couple of advanced features you may be interested in using. As a publisher, I can create my own rules and house style that detects patterns, overused words, dialog, repeats, and lets me create customized advice messages for my authors. Their developer API allows software developers to add wr... |
Editing is the number one most critical element that determines a book's success. Editing is expensive, and these tools will help you fix the simple stuff so your editor can concentrate on the hard stuff that helps develop your manuscript into a work of art. |
I would recommend choosing between ProWritingAir, Grammarly, and AutoCrit, and purchasing both Masterwriter and Fictionary. You might think that's overkill, but listen, you're worth it. Your book is worth it. Your readers are worth it. And your editor will love you. |
What about free tools? Sure! Go ahead. But they're just not as robust as these paid apps. There are lots of free and low-cost simple editing tools, collaborative online editing tools, text-to-voice reading applications, and editing tools with unique features that may attract certain kinds of writers, editors, and publi... |
Are the tools I've listed in this post new to you or have you been using one or the other for a while? Did I miss your favorite tool? I'd love to get your input on the tools you like (and don't like), and tools you think I should include in future reviews, in the comments below. |
13 thoughts on "Practical Editing Software for Authors and Editors" |
Check out PerfectIt 3 and WordRake. PerfectIt 3 costs about $75 (one-time, not a subscription) and does a good job of catching consistency in acronyms, abbreviations, and other words–something that other editing tools don't do. WordRake is used primarily by the legal profession and does a great job of eliminating unnec... |
Got it! Thanks much for making us all aware of those new tools and the warnings about the other. This list grows longer and longer! |
I ended up buying ProWritingAid and love the program. It takes time to correct/view the errors but the end result is you will become a better writer. I'm editing/polishing my WIP with it and have seen a major difference when I'm writing new things with less passive verbs, pronouns, -ly and initialing words in my manusc... |
I looked at Grammerly but the cost and some of the reviews put me off along with the extras not included in the program which I got with ProWritingAid. Autocrit is new for me, but again, the cost would have me looking elsewhere. SmartEdit is also a new one to me, but ProWritingAid does everything it does for less. |
No matter which one you use, you need to use it. Yes, it adds time to your editing, but in the end, you will love how your manuscript is more polished. No, it doesn't mean you don't need a professional editor, but it helps when they don't need to do that much and it may get you a discount if they work with you all the ... |
Wow, Barbara, you really did your research! That's all valuable information. Thank you so much for letting me know. I may actually give PWA another go based on your experience. |
Jeff Tregan says: |
I have just finished my first novel. After a manuscript review my editor recommended that I get line edit service. I am using an Independent publisher so the amount of editing I pay for is what I get. My questions is do any of these programs replace the editor completely or do they just make it easier for my editor to ... |
Great question! No, these tools not a replacement for an editor, but you are right, they make it easier for your editor to do their part AND will save you on editing fees/time by helping you clean up your manuscript before handing it over. Self-editing is also an important part of the writing process itself as it will ... |
Thank you for mentioning Fictionary! If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer them. I'm the CEO of Fictionary and love to talk about editing 🙂 |
Carla, like you I'm on Mac and have trialed both Autocrit and ProWritingAid. I could use and benefit from either of them but have not been able to make them work. Similar problems with both. I upload a Word docx, make changes, save expecting to see the changes appear in my original document. They're not there. The one ... |
The customer service of both Autocrit and PWA went out of their way to help resolve the issues but nothing worked. I'd subscribe to either if they did. Do you have any suggestions to try or for alternative programs? |
I suspect your problem is with Microsoft Word Styles. When you paste your text back into your document it isn't automatically being formatted with the correct paragraph style. But if you apply the body text style to it, it should automatically format correctly. |
In other words, you've written your manuscript. Then you've probably (like most authors) manually changed all the body text to a particular font. And then you've manually changed the alignment (ragged right to justified), and the line spacing. All this manual formatting isn't going to "stick." |
What you need to do instead is go to the styles menu in word and apply a style to ALL of your paragraphs. Normal, or whatever. You can create a new one or two, if you have different styles (such as no indent for the first paragraph of the chapter). bodytext1 and bodytext2. You can change that style as you like and then... |
I have a whole post about this: https://www.bookworks.com/2015/07/what-every-author-needs-to-know-about-microsoft-word-styles/ |
I hope that helps! Please let me know William, I'd like to know if that's it and that it isn't a problem with these editors. |
William A Matthies says: |
Thanks for the response Carla, I quickly read it last night and will give it a try tomorrow. Busy day today. I'll let you know how it goes. One additional procedure question for you now. |
You said, "When you paste your text back into your document . . ." Do you mean literally paste as in cut and paste? PWA makes a point of saying changes made in an uploaded copy to their software will automatically go back to the original document when saved. This is a partial response from them to our attempts to work ... |
I finally got that to work but with the added unwanted font, spacing, and other format changes as well. |
I don't recall the specifics of working with Autocrit other than it was "buggy" with long delays, crashes, etc. |
Both seem to do what I wanted but I couldn't get them to work as advertised. |
I reached out to Hemmingway yesterday with some questions. No response yet. |
Thanks again for you responding. |
Bill, try it out and please report back. I'm interested to know the results. Thanks! |
You're right about me having changed style elements in my original test so I created a new test doc using "normal" formatting. I then reopened PWA, uploaded the new test doc and got a message saying my trial period had ended, did I want to purchase? I closed the message and was able to make a couple of test edits. I sa... |
I just sent a message to PWA describing all this along with your suggestion. I asked them to renew my trial, thinking that may now be the problem. I'll wait for their response before trying your suggestion again. |
Thank you Carla for your willingness to help, and you too PWA for your efforts. I'll let you both know what happens. |
Update for you Carla. |
It's been 5 days since I requested a trial renewal from PWA so I could try your suggestion. No response. I'll move on and look for an alternative. Any suggestions you or others have will be appreciated. I tried AutoCrit prior to PWA. Great program in terms of what it does but for me, very buggy. Slow, screen freezes, c... |
Letter: Don"t hold anything back in life |
A wonderful woman is slowly dying, but we"re not sure she knows. Our mother has spent 93 blessed years on this planet, most of them making life better for those around her. We are hoping she surprises us with one more lucid moment, that would provide the final opportunity to thank her for her tireless efforts as mother... |
This is the reason we should all make it a point to communicate those feelings as frequently and sincerely as humanly possible to those most important to us. I knew the day could arrive when the world might become something of a dark and mysterious place for her. Fortunately, I had the foresight to put together a long ... |
This isn"t about our impending loss though. I want to thank the entire staff at Olive City Care Home in Corning, especially Jeff and Elena, for the care and comfort they have provided over the last several years. It is heartbreaking enough to have to make the decision to remove loved ones from their homes. Thankfully, ... |
The Directorate for Entrepreneurship and General Studies (DE&GS) was established on the 11th May 2017 as Centre for Entrepreneurship and General Studies. Based on the activities of the Centre the nomenclature was changed by the University Management from Centre for Entrepreneurship and General Studies to Directorate fo... |
To provide functional cost-effective flexible learning which adds life-long value to student's entrepreneurial initiative, creativity, research, and innovation.<eot>In 2020, Piaget is proud to announce that the answers to those two questions are ’yes’ and ’yes’ - because the Altiplano Ultimate Concept is no longer just... |
The Altiplano Ultimate Concept was developed and produced entirely in-house by Piaget’s dedicated Research and Innovation division. |
The team worked solely on the prototype for four years - during which time many of the established codes of watch making were re-invented - and spent a further two years perfecting the design and engineering in order to bring the watch to your wrist.<eot>Will You Pass the Flinch Test? By Lee B. Salz |
What happens next determines whether or not you will get the business. When I say "get" the business, there are two sides to consider. The obvious is whether or not the prospect will award the business to you. The less obvious is whether your company will agree to their desired price level. |
The negotiation may get to a point where the prospect says they want to award you the business, but at a price unacceptable to your company. If you've ever been there, it is painful to say the least. As a sales person, you have a responsibility to facilitate the process in a way that leads to a mutually acceptable conc... |
These pros are trained to react with surprise so that they can see if the sales person is confident in the price they have put forward. It is nothing more than a straightforward negotiation tactic. |
Often times, they overstate the price difference such that you can do some quick math and see that the differential is bogus. I can recall a time where I was told that we were 50% higher than the competition. When I reviewed the numbers, this meant that the competitor was losing 18% based on fixed costs that we both ha... |
Juneteenth holiday is America's chance to explore racial slavery and its lasting impact |
Juneteenth can be our path to a new national consensus forged not by lies or half-truths, but by coming to terms with our history of racial trauma. |
Juneteenth, the celebration of emancipation that commemorates the June 19, 1865, date when Black Texans in Galveston received news that slavery and the Civil War had ended, represents a new birth of American freedom – both historically and in our own time. |
The racial justice demonstrations that rocked the nation last year galvanized a reconsideration of not just Black lives but also Black history. Juneteenth was already recognized in Texas, the last Confederate state to announce the Emancipation Proclamation. But now it is a national phenomenon – a way for all Americans ... |
After unusually quick and unified action this week by Congress and President Joe Biden, Juneteenth will now be celebrated as a national holiday – one that will expose us to the full depth and breadth of American history. This exploration will be at times painful, but ultimately it will help our nation eradicate systemi... |
Roots of contemporary racism |
That's because Juneteenth offers us a window into Reconstruction, the long effort to transform America into a multiracial democracy that began in 1865. Contemporary issues of systemic racism – ranging from voter suppression to police brutality and mass incarceration to racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods to... |
This longer view allows for a reconsideration of American history. The annual Juneteenth holiday now represents an entry point for a better understanding of the "abolition democracy" that guided efforts to build a multiracial democracy from the bottom up. |
White supremacist efforts to "redeem" the South from Black citizenship and dignity paralleled the era's racial progress. The introduction, state by state, of Black Codes designed to rob Black people of the franchise proved to be the tip of the iceberg. |
White Americans used physical violence to limit Black people's access to electoral office, serve on juries, and own and cultivate land. Terms such as sharecropping, debt peonage and convict leasing hardly do justice to the systemic nature of racial oppression innovated during Reconstruction. |
The ratification of the 13th Amendment ended racial slavery, but white landowners, supported at the federal level by President Andrew Johnson, kept their land and set out to coerce Black laborers in a manner that recalled the bullwhip days of racial slavery. Black agricultural workers found themselves compelled to work... |
Convict leasing ushered in the first wave of racial profiling connected to the criminal justice system. Southern states passed vagrancy laws expressly designed to arrest, incarcerate and put to forced work Black men and women during Reconstruction. |
Local violence, federal indifference |
All of these racist policies served as a precursor to today's political crises of mass incarceration, voter suppression and more. Racial segregation, what has been characterized as Jim Crow, became the most visible feature of a reordered political landscape policed by violence from local authorities, racial terrorists ... |
America is wise to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. As Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday at the signing ceremony taking place "in a house built by enslaved people … footsteps away from where President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation," that makes an important statement: National holidays ... |
Biden praised the overwhelming bipartisan support the bill drew and predicted that signing it into law would be "one of the greatest honors I will have as president." |
Ongoing injury:On Brown v. Board anniversary, white Americans must still wrestle with legacy of racism |
The nation now has a unique opportunity to listen to the voices of Black women and men who helped to reconstruct American democracy against long odds. Their stories continue well into the 21st century as the racial justice protests illustrated for the world to see. |
Juneteenth offers the rare chance to foster a new national consensus, one forged not through lies, evasions or half-truths, but through the crucible of coming to terms with the full depth and breadth of American histories of racial trauma that continue to haunt our country despite efforts by some to deny their very exi... |
Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Follow him on Twitter: @penieljoseph<eot>Read Jones stories, books, and poems on Booksie |
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Years before raiders, Indiana Jones embarks on an epic journey to retrieve the legendary ring of Solomon before a vile visionary can unleash its demonic powers on the world! Read More |
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I stared at my ceiling last night for three hours, I was dead tired but I could not sleep. My mind was going through who and what I am (it does this all the time but never at 12 to 3 at night). Read More<eot>"We have been able to provide significant enhancements to our already great products, such as visibility and gre... |
van Rooyen attributes the success of managing these four stores simultaneously to the employment of highly proficient managers and staff in each store, and the implementation of tight control systems throughout. Further, he adds that ongoing training and a meticulous focus on product quality, customer service and opera... |
Scooters Pizza Newton Park and Walker Drive had previously been owned by van Rooyen between 2004 and 2008, at which point he sold both stores and opened the Uitenhage store. However, he subsequently repurchased the Newton Park and Walker Drive stores in May 2012, and also converted a non-franchised outlet in Fig Tree i... |
Christo Calitz, CEO of Taste Holdings Food Division, notes that van Rooyen's achievement in owning multiple stores is a testament to the considerable franchising opportunities that Scooters Pizza offers. |
"Glen's successful ownership of four Scooters Pizza stores undeniably proves that the Scooters Pizza franchising model offers current and potential franchisees a suitable platform for lasting business success. We are extremely proud of Glen and his noted accomplishments within the Port Elizabeth area, and are confident... |
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. |
�But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. |
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it... |
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. �Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
�And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; |
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.<eot>OCR recently announced that 11 more entities were fined for failing to provide timely access to patient records following a patien... |
We've said this before and we'll repeat it - it's essential you have a multi-tiered process in place for handling patient records requests. If all emails go to a particular staff member, and they go on vacation, you better have those emails getting covered by another team member. You simply cannot afford to ignore or m... |
The second point to be aware of is patients are onto this requirement - and they're either genuinely or maliciously holding your feet to the fire. Your procedure has to account for the occasional patient who may have bad intentions in their interactions with your staff. This trend will continue - patients are demanding... |
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