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AHumbleWarrior said:
Hello all! Quick poll:

Do you use Grammarly? Yes or No

If yes, do you pay for the premium service? Yes or No

Opinions and feedback appreciated. Have a blessed day!
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I use Grammarly after I finish writing my final draft and edit my own work. It's always helpful to run it through some kind of software before publishing, in my opinion.

No, I do not pay for the premium service, but I probably will someday. It is well worth it.
 
I used to use it for free but only occasionally. And then I forgot about it. I've also used Hemingway. I found this...

If you are someone who writes often and you know you don't have many grammatical errors, then Hemingway is for you. If you are someone who doesn't write often and need help with a grammar checker and perfecting your technique, then Grammarly is the choice for you.

Also, don't forget, we have a critique section that are welcome to use.
 
lynnmosher said:
I used to use it for free but only occasionally. And then I forgot about it. I've also used Hemingway. I found this...

If you are someone who writes often and you know you don't have many grammatical errors, then Hemingway is for you. If you are someone who doesn't write often and need help with a grammar checker and perfecting your technique, then Grammarly is the choice for you.

Also, don't forget, we have a critique section that are welcome to use.
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I've never heard of Hemingway. I'll have to check it out. Thank you.
 
I had used Grammarly before, but I now use Pro Writing Aid, there is a nice free addon you can install in Microsoft word too. I found PWA very helpful in many ways when checking my manuscript. It did a basic check which found initial errors in grammar, spelling, passive voice, and readability improvements. There are also other reports that show style issues, sentence length variation, overall glue word percentage of a passage or chapter, over-dependence on adverbs, over-complicated sentence construction and repetitiveness of words used. A lot of the stuff I didn't even notice until it was pointed out.

There is a free and pro version just like Grammarly. I got the pro version for 1 year and was able to open my scrivener project in Pro Writing Aid and could make changes and save them directly to the scrivener project file.
 
I am using the pro version. I was looking through my spam inbox and found a productivity email I didn't know they sent me. Based on this, I am assuming most writers don't use Grammarly because otherwise, I would not be in the exosphere like this:

June 11-18th

PRODUCTIVITY
You were more productive than
99% of Grammarly users.
785,210
words analyzed

MASTERY
You were more accurate than
97% of Grammarly users.
795
alerts shown


VOCABULARY
You used more unique words than
98% of Grammarly users.
 
I use ProWritingAid because it syncs with Scrivener and any edits I do in PWA are automatically populated back in to the Scrivener project. It's the coolest thing. (Just make sure each is Saved and closed before opening the project in the other app.)
 
I have used Gramerly at work because they let us the free version. It works pretty well.

I use PWA personally though, boy do I need it. Still learning how to get the most out of it. One of the deciding factors for me was the one time fee for lifetime. No subscriptions. Had to bite the bullet to get it, but money well spent for me.
 
Johne said:
I use ProWritingAid because it syncs with Scrivener and any edits I do in PWA are automatically populated back in to the Scrivener project. It's the coolest thing. (Just make sure each is Saved and closed before opening the project in the other app.)
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Us unsophisticated folks still write in Word. I have looked at Scrivener and something else I bookmarked, but I have been in a good zone lately, and not just with the vomit drafts (those take me the least amount of time) but with work that I don't mind people seeing.

I don't know what other people call that first draft.
 
If you're looking to try Scrivener, there is a Scrivener like program called Ywriter. I've used it some, but still spend most of my time in Word. It seems to work pretty good, but I'm so used to Word I've not done much with it yet. Not sure if it'll work with ProWriting Aid or Gramerly like Word. The cool part is Ywriter is free.
 
You can load a word document directly into PWA and see any errors and edit it and then save it, or you can get also get a PWA extension/'addon for Word and see suggestions directly inside word. Although I don't think the extension is as good as the actual program, but it still helps.
 
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