Donna Nichols asked Michael Gouker:

Hey Michael, you ever hear of ProWritingAid? I am loving all your blogs still! It is so fantastic to open my emails and see that YOU have posted a new blog. Someone I actually can relate to!! Donna

Michael Gouker Hey, Donna! Thanks for your question! I like ProWritingAid. I have a subscription and use it to find otherwise invisible issues in my text, however it is only a tool, and especially with dialogue, you must be flexible. For characters, voice and consistency are most important, and the only way I have found is to read each character's dialogue aloud--it has to be aloud for me to *hear* where it sounds unnatural. Maybe once I become a better writer it will flow naturally but for now, I compensate by doing the grunt work. :-)

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