Grammarly.com
Has anyone ever used Grammarly.com? I have, and thought I had found the answer to my prayers when it came to editing my book. They have settings for general, business, creative, academic, technical and casual editing available. I used mostly general, and some creative while editing my book, Anatomy of a Life. But the problem lies in what Grammarly thinks is correct grammar and punctuation, and how readers read the so-called correct grammar and punctuation. I personally spent months inserting each and every paragraph of my book into the Grammarly program, thinking I was correcting every mistake known to man, when in actuality, and in re-reading my book...just one more time...I found myself stumbling over sentences that I had corrected! So, as it turns out, I've been accused of being uneducated because of these mistakes. Yes, I only have a high school education, and maybe I was a little rusty, okay, a lot rusty, when it came to writing in proper English, but hey, I'm a housewife and mother who took on a monumental seven-year book-writing task, and I didn't have the money to pay a professional editor for the 648 pages my book eventually became, so, I edited it myself. In the end, I may have some mistakes, but soon, a new edition will be out in which I can assure you is, 99.9% correct, and hey, think about it, if my book and I become famous, those of you who have the first edition with "my mistakes", may have the most sought after edition after all, as it is with Charles Dickens! Yeah!! ;)
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