![]() ![]() ![]() Other Productive Software Not Directly Associated With Your Writing. Yes, it's good to reconcile your bank account on Quickbooks or make sure you're up to date on your calendar app, but responsible, well-meaning work can easily be an excuse for a quick distraction that turns into a major distraction from writing your book.You can't write a book if you spend you writing time publishing social media posts. Facebook, TikTok, and Other Social Media Software. Do I really need to say more? Fortunately there's a piece of book writing software for avoiding this very distracting software (see Freedom below).Video Games. Especially World of Warcraft (always, always, always!) but also Solitaire, Sudoku, Angry Birds, and, for me right now, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes.But Grammarly’s simple (and still free, I think, if you only use the “correctness” tab instead of all the other bells and whistles) tool is useful enough to recommend to all writers, and authors especially.Worst Pieces of Software for Writing a Bookīefore we discuss writing software that will help you write a beautiful book, it's important to understand (and eliminate) what will hurt your writing progress. Generally, prowritingaid is better to learn how to write better, with suggestions on word choice, sentence structure, etc. But prowritingaid sometimes catches a handful of other things that Grammarly missed. I’ve tested extensively, and in my experience Grammarly catches more actual typos, so that’s primarily what I use. But it’s still worth it if I catch a dozen typos from a full book manuscript. That’s why even when I’m editing books, I always do a final pass with editing software to make sure I haven’t missed anything. ![]() If you’re like me, you might think that a “real writer” already can spell well enough, and that somebody shouldn’t take on a writing job if they can’t.īut here’s the thing: in the passion of first-draft creative writing – often fueled by insomnia, caffeine and anxiety – it’s very common to make very simple, dumb mistakes… and also very tricky to catch them while revising your own writing. There’s an ad I’ve seen promoting Grammarly: a young woman gets a new job as a social media manager, and uses Grammarly to avoid embarrassingly simple grammar and spelling mistakes. ![]()
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