Diary of Being a Writer; Week 130

Editing Apps can be mean.

I am sending some pages to an editor today. 50 to be exact. From that, they will be able to have an idea about how much they need to do to help me and then they will know how much time they will need to set aside for my WIP and how much money I will need to set aside. Jokes! I know how much this will cost and have looked at several editorial services online and this editor is on par with those.

Unless they come back with an ‘oh my god, you are beyond hope I can’t help you’.
Which would be bad. Which won’t happen because this book is going to be published and it is going to be the first in a series that will also get picked up by Netflix and allow me to call myself an author.

So before I send off the entire manuscript, I am trying to fix as much as I can as quickly as I can. So I am trying out yet another editing assistant app. I just checked, and this one is called ProWritingAid. I already have Grammarly which I like. Grammarly now works within GoogleDocs and Medium. This one works in Scrivener, which is cool. Neither of them can handle an entire manuscript in one go which I see as a failure when I want to analyse how I use certain words or phrases overall.

The ProWritingAid is not impressed with me, I use too many adverbs.