Esmeralda Stone

This is just a quick post to let anyone out there know that ProWritingAid’s Black Friday sale is going on now and lasts for another thirteen days. $199 (regularly $399) for the lifetime premium program and an even more exuberant price for the premium pro program.

Am I getting something from ProWritingAid for letting you know they have a sale going on? Nope. They have no idea who I am. But I use the program a lot, and I’ve used it on and off for almost six years. I wish I could go back to six years-ago me and say, “Wait until it goes on sale and buy the lifetime subscription instead of the yearly,” but I can’t. And when I needed the program to edit Loving Remains and didn’t have it anymore, I sucked it up and paid almost full price for the lifetime subscription. And it hurt. So, all I’m trying to do is save anyone who has been thinking about buying it a little pain and money.

What is ProWritingAid? It’s basically an editing program. I’m sure people use it for more than that, but that’s what I use it for. I personally don’t like uploading documents into the program because it makes me twitchy, so I cut and paste whatever section I’m editing into the program, edit in my writing program, and then delete the section from ProWritingAid and move on to the next.

The program edits for spelling, punctuation, passive sentences, over-used words, weird dialogue tags, open dialogue, and the list goes on. Is editing still a lengthy and time-sucky process using ProWritingAid? Absolutely! Do I still have to read through whatever I’m writing multiple times? Of course! Because the program won’t flag words that make sense to the program—even if it isn’t the correct word (so vs to). And I don’t use all the suggested changes because the program doesn’t understand the tone or style I’m going for in a particular story.

But if you’re willing to put the work in, and you already have a good understanding of the written word, it can save you a lot of time and money on paying someone else to find all of those little mistakes the program identifies.

And now that I’ve let you know, I’m going to run this post through ProWritingAid.

Happy Wednesday!

E.S.