Alright, playing a bitch of catch-up here:
I’ve head Grammarly for about a year now. Not willing to pay for the upgraded version yet to see what the “advanced issues” detected are, since I’m pretty sure they’ll just be things confused by the program, and not actual mistakes. Proof? My mix-up with homophones: not detected at all. Any of them. Yet every time I want to use a word to achieve a certain though (such as “he did not really like...”) Grammarly immediately wants me to reword that to something less impactful or otherwise misleading. Or how it freaks out about British vs. English spelling.
Also, I’ve chosen a new font to edit my physical manuscript. I chose AL BLANCA. Since I was never very good at reading/writing script other than my signature, I think it’s a wonderful way to slow myself down to catch these errors.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Ok you said you proofread it, did you just proofread for misspelled and wrong words? If so you are probably good there.
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Well, you’d think that, wouldn’t you? Unfortunately, that was not the case, I found to my disappointment. You know what’s really aggravating? 1 letter. That’s what makes them wrong. 1 freaking letter. An M that should be an N, or and E that should be an A.
NEXT! Homophones... god, I’m really beginning to hate these things. Let’s take a look at “past”: Out of 65 instances of using that word, I have used it wrongly (and should have used “passed” instead) 60 times. 60 out of 65, wrong. (Note that as I typed out this reply on Word, I edited a string of obscenities that reached into the next page.)
What I ended up doing was grabbing a .pdf from the web of the most commonly mixed up homophones, wrote up a document of their full definitions, forms, ect. of each, and combing through my digital and physical manuscripts to see which ones I used wrongly. Which... as it turns out... is most of them... damn...
Once I complete this step, I’ll pick up where I left off in the physical manuscript and continue editing. As far as editing, I’ve literally got my manuscript in front of me all the time, even when I sleep. I’ll comb through a paragraph, watch part of an episode of something on Hulu, go through another paragraph, lather, rise, repeat.
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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Start at the end of the book and read each sentence in turn going backwards.
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At least point I’ll do anything.
Just trying to say that, overall, I am taking advice from this forum and applying it to my work. Th effort is not wasted.
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Originally Posted by darryl
@E.M.DuBois. I wish you success with your book, and congratulate you on your reaction to the advice given in these forums so far.
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Urg, at this point, I’m wondering if I’m just wasting my life with this and just make it a hobby.