Scrivener alternatives series#
This is post 3 of my series looking at how ProWritingAid works with Scrivener. It’s worth checking though ‘seldom’ is an improvement on ‘rarely’? ProWritingAid works with Scrivener So many of the words are underlined and, for most, I wouldn’t want to make a change. This provides alternatives for verbs, adjectives, nouns, and adverbs, each category underlined in a different colour.
Scrivener alternatives full#
There is also the option for a full Thesaurus report. Perhaps I should use that as a substitute? One of the options under the Thesaurus is ‘intimate’. Right-clicking on the term reveals the option to open Word Explorer. Next is ‘sexual’ with 4 occurrences I’ll need to find alternative words, maybe. However, should I consider using pronouns instead? More on that in a later blog post … This is understandable – they are the main characters. The name Ruth appears 4 times, and Cathy 6 times. This is another scene from The Ghost Writer, still in draft form, and written in 2011 during NaNoWriMo. An example from NANO 2011 draft: The Ghost Writer It lists them and underlines them, leaving you to decide which you might change. The Repeats report identifies words and phrases that you use frequently. Repeating them, unaware is easily done and is to be avoided. Repeating words or phrases on purpose can have a dripping tap effect and this may be precisely what you want. Or, they might not! ProWritingAid to the rescue … Words that are repeated might echo for you. While you listen to your friend, you’ll be aware if he or she stumbles over your words.
Ideally, you ask a friend to read the piece aloud and you listen, pretending to be your target audience, but with your m ental checklist in mind:
The red pen does not make an appearance until step 8 we are still at the thinking / reading / listening / planning stage. In step 4 of my Red Pen Editing cycle, we ‘Study the Content’.
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