Useful Editing Tool

There is a quite useful editing tool that works as you go that I highly recommend. Like Grammerly, it works as you write, either here on Lush or in your word processor. To me, it seems to find more possible problems than Grammarly. It is LanguageTool and can be found at Languagetool.org. There is a free and pay version. The free version finds spelling, grammar and punctuation issues.

Hm. Will have a look. I really should give one of these a whirl but seem to so okay with Google Docs built-in tools so haven't invested the time yet.

Thanks for the tip, Kee. Have installed the LanguageTool browser extension so I'll give it a whirl.

Grammarly is getting on my tits with its invasive floating bar that covers the entire lower right corner of each box, and the fact that if I paste a story doc into Lush it takes forever to scan it, locking up the browser while it does so.

ProWritingAid is pretty good. Offers a lot of reports and writing tips as well.

Thanks for the data!

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Grammarly is getting on my tits with its invasive floating bar that covers the entire lower right corner of each box, and the fact that if I paste a story doc into Lush it takes forever to scan it, locking up the browser while it does so.

Is there not some way to turn it off temporarily since I assume it has already checked the document in whatever you use to write? Otherwise, seems like a huge negative to me.

Yeah, the addon can be disabled but it's a pain to have to remember to do that each time, especially if I've already filled out other form fields. IIRC the page needs refreshing for the switch off to take effect, but it's been a while since I bothered so that might have changed.

Easier to uninstall it. Which I have. It was becoming too invasive in terms of screen real estate for my liking.

I actually started using onestopforwriters.com after having been writing my novel for the past 3 years and only getting about halfway through my planned storyline. It has been night and day since I started using it because now I can easily visualize it and share my vision with editors that are now helping me fix certain issues inherent with my writing difficulties.

Another two tools that I use to enhance the realism of my characters in my stories:

http://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/calcupop.htm - Detailed Body Ratio Calculator
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ - Detailed 3D body model generator

If I describe a character a certain way, I enter measurements to either approximate or exactly what I stated to see what the tools output for me.

I've been using the Grammarly plugin for Safari for a long time. When you print, the program underlines mistakes and immediately corrects them when you click on the word (it's convenient). In the free version, the service is limited to "simple" errors - spelling and punctuation. But still, some speech errors are also corrected. Recently, I noticed that the program loads the system. There was an idea to abandon it, but the developers have partly solved the problem after the release of a new plugin a couple of months ago, but unfortunately not for long. Sometimes freezes happen. Sometimes the program offers incorrect fixes (but fortunately, it does not automatically fix anything by itself). So I would be happy to try some other option. Languagetool - why not?