Editing Tool ProWritingAid

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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

When the ProWritingAid team recently got in touch with me and offered me the chance to check out their editing tool, I was happy to take them up on it.  I have never used editing software and was curious to see how well it would work. (I’m not an affiliate, but I did get a free account to try out.)

After setting up my account I decided to upload a couple of documents.  The first I uploaded was the current WiP.  ProWritingAid indicated that the document might be too large for the tool to effectively handle.  I also uploaded a much shorter document, a condensed version of one of my mysteries that’s going to be translated into Spanish.

As the program predicted, it had some trouble with the big (about 50,000 word) file.  It still worked, but the response was slow.  The shorter document had no problems at all.  It might be best to portion out a completed or near-completed manuscript into smaller chunks to run through the software.Continue reading

Editing Published Books

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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

One of my favorite things about self-publishing is the ability to go back into a published book and make changes.

There have been, unfortunately, a few things that I would like to correct in some of my published Penguin books. Naturally, I don’t have the ability to make those because they’re not in my KDP dashboard.

But with my self-published books, I’ve made quite a few changes to the text.

One reason I might go back in is what you’d expect…correcting typos or small formatting issues.Continue reading

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