Grammarly at full horsepower eats alive grammar errors, passive voice, out of place words, style inconsistency. I recommend the premium or paid version of any app I use but use what you can afford. I have used it for years, both the free and premium versions. I have yet to read an article about writing aids that don’t mention Grammarly. Grammarly’s Adjust Goals function by Author I use websites less often, but I always use Grammark, Hemingway Editor, and less often After the Deadline. What are my tools? In no order of importance, I use Grammarly, Ginger, Writefull, and Wordrake as Microsoft Word add-ins. Still, the rough draft polishing turnaround is reduced substantially with these tools. Still, my articles aren’t perfect, and I occasionally edit post-publication. I have grown to rely heavily on each as my second set of eyes. Using these tools freed me up to worry about the message and style - some, if not all, these tools you may have heard of or used. Since I am just an OK editor, I came to rely on the helpful tools for proofreading, editing, and grammar shaming. Even this article is a self-challenge to write something helpful and clear. I’ve tried to step out of my comfort zone of twelve semi-colons and paragraph-long sentences. COVID-19, for me as for so many others, gave me substantial time to pick up old habits. Sporadic was the habit after that as fatherhood, career, and marriage(s) re-wired my priorities. I went to college as a history major, and those professors love two things: students reading and students writing. I just knew I was a literary genius, and she was full of it. I went to a creative writing magnet high school to argue for overly baroque writing in the face of my Hemingway loving teacher. I am new to Medium as a reader and as a writer, but I have been writing my entire life.
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