Once more unto the blog, gentle Readers, once more;
Or finish the story up with our English words
Now let me be clear from the start. I'm back unto the blog in an effort to promote my writing and lift my profile a little above sea level. All post will now be solely about the writing and nothing but the writing.
My earlier trilogy of blogs begun in 2004 were meant to be about
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| The original Blog |
Life: called "That's Life" subtitled 'A Baby Boomer's thoughts on the privilege of aging. (concerned as ever with maintaining my
(live donor) kidney transplant)'
the Universe: called "A Writer's Blog" and tagged: 'I write, therefore I am' survived until 2014 and the one you're reading now that I'm resurrecting.
and Everything: called "Eye of the Robot" which was set up in 2004 and got its first post in 2007. I had such plans but it never really got off the ground.
In the end due to failing kidneys and a transplant "That's Life" usurped "Eye of the Robot" which in 2015 was itself transplanted into "A Writer's Blog" (the 2004 entry is embedded in a 2007 post)
So, to begin again as I have begun so many times
gday gentle readers
I've been experimenting with Pro Writing Aid. I uploaded The GRim, a tongue-in-cheek satirical comedy, or perhaps a comical satire to ProWritingAid.com. (here-in-after PWA) This story analyser (free online to limited of 10,000 word) is supposedly the best thing since sliced bread for writers - assuming writers like sliced bread. Its definitely a step up from grammarly.com, which is only marginally better than words Grammar & Spelling checker.
The Grim @ 7000 words is one of my shorter stories, and it appears in the anthology Out of the Dark, edited by Robert N. Stephenson and published by Altair Australia Pty Ltd.
PWA found 256 errors, divided thus: 160 grammar issues, 63 style issues and 33 spelling issues starting with "unusual capitalisation" in reference to the title The GRim. (as explained in the story GRim is how the characters of the story refer to their environment ~ the Galactic Rim)
As in most of these programs there is a choice of fixes. In this case "ignore" or "disable rule". I chose to ignored, until it popped up again. I then chose disable rule which PWA chose to ignore.
As with word, once I added character names to "my dictionary" the spelling issues dropped from 33 to 5. I'll discuss those 5 in my next post.
to be continued ...
ooroo for now
