English as a Foreign Language- Help for Writers
Thanks for your reply! @mmlf I naturally decided to go with the shortest version (out of pure laziness) but that isn't something that a round of find and replace can fix...
I would say my writing is going well, but without input from anyone else, that is purely my own point of view. Maybe it is gibberish to everybody else? Anyway, I'm enjoying it, that is the main point for me. I have soon written out 18 of my 20 drafted chapters, now standing at the peak of my plot mountain! Once finished I will do a round of editing and probably put it on AO3.
If anyone else is stubbornly refusing to consult AI for language and spelling, I found an intermediate way which works well for me. I use words read aloud. The voice and intonation is somewhat (or maybe extremely) irritating but it is much easier to spot missing words or spelling errors when hearing the text. It also does miracles when uncertain about the placement of the comma.
Glad to hear such great progress @snapdragon
Wow- I use text-to-speech as well. It provides a far more thorough edit than simply reading a screen over and over, which leads to skimming and is exhausting. My text-to-speech voice is a robotic American female one, but it works!
For one previous fanfic, I leaned heavily on Fowler's English Usage for things like comma placement, semicolons, and other stuff.
There are also sentence dictionaries online, which I have used very frequently.
Good luck writing!
