There are Not
Enough Hours in the Day
We’ve all heard it before…there are not
enough hours in the day. You feel as if your time is fleeting and there’s not
enough time for you to complete your writing and editing in time for your
publisher’s deadline. And what if you’re a self-publisher. You drive your own
deadlines but at the same time you don’t
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| Nikolas Baron |
Online Editing With Grammarly
Thankfully, we have the resources of the
Internet and all the online editing resources it can offer. While we try to
cram as much work as possible into one day, we can be happy that there are
helpful and reliable resources available. The only caveat is finding the
resources that are truly what they say they are. I’ve wandered through many
websites that claim they’re free or that they have the best proofreader. They
have the most boards, the most synonyms, the most people talking about their website.
But it’s one thing to claim all these things and cram social media inboxes with
tweets and posts about your website; it’s another for the website to be useful
to writers.
One of the best resources I’ve found amongst
all the Internet garbage is Grammarly. Grammarly offers a fast grammar check that finds errors Microsoft
Word misses, a proofreading tool that adapts to your style, and an online help
community second to none. I love that their website and tool is extremely
comprehensive and covers every facet of writing I need help with. The grammar
check makes sure my work is clean if I want to send a cover letter. I can be
confident that my letter, manuscript, or short story is error-free because of the
in-depth way Grammarly proofreads material.
Grammarly learned my style and helped me
correct my most common errors. That’s one of the most frustrating things for me
when it comes to writing: making the same errors over and over again. Everyone
has certain ticks when they write but we all have to overcome them to make
publishable material. Grammarly constantly makes me aware of my most common
errors and teaches me how to fix them and avoid them in the future; therefore,
saving me time.
Especially when
you’re trying to save time editing, going over the same errors a million times
can waste hours you would have spent improving your work. With Grammarly, you
don’t have to worry about wasted hours because they teach you to avoid errors
that cost you extra time.
Quality Over Quantity
Grammarly’s quality outweighs many other
writing help sources that provide similar services. There may be websites that
claim they offer more way more help options than a site like Grammarly, but are
they devoting equal time to all the things they offer? Or are they just trying
to boost their resume? Do they really care about helping the user become a
better writer and editor? Or are they more concerned with money, SEO, and
grabbing more visitors?
Grammarly is able to save you more time by
providing you with quality services. They don’t waste your time with ads and
more “helpful tools” than you could ever use. An excellent proofreading/grammar
check tool, teaching resources, context-optimized synonym generator, an
adaptive style tool, and extensive help/question and answer boards make
Grammarly a truly outstanding tool. By allowing you to clean up things quickly
and accurately, Grammarly makes editing easier and saves you time.
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*A little bit about the author:
Nikolas discovered
his love for the written word in Elementary School, where he started spending
his afternoons sprawled across the living room floor devouring one Marc Brown
children’s novel after the other and writing short stories about daring pirate
adventures. After acquiring some experience in various marketing, business
development, and hiring roles at internet startups in a few different
countries, he decided to re-unite his professional life with his childhood
passions by joining Grammarly’s marketing team in San Francisco. He has the
pleasure of being tasked with talking to writers, bloggers, teachers, and
others about how they use Grammarly’s online proofreading application to
improve their writing. His free time is spent biking, traveling, and reading.
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