211 - Its importent to get you're grammer write; and ProWritingAid Will help with that,

Interview with Chris Banks and Nathan Wrigley

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Writing is important. It’s one of the greatest inventions in the history of humanity. In fact, it may very well be the most important. After all, the collective wisdom, gathered throughout history, is mostly written down so we don’t have to remember it.

But we can all agree that not all writing is equal. For example, if you were to compare my doggerel to the poetry of Shakespeare, I’m pretty sure that I can guess which you’d prefer to read! Bless him, he tried, but you cannot argue with my superior style!

Most of the writing that we create and read has nothing to do with prose. It’s the news that we consume, the recipes we crib from, the information that we study and the emails / letters that we use to communicate.

In these situations, it’s important to write in a clear and understandable way. Errors in grammar, spelling and structure stand out and spoil the flow of what you’re trying to get across.

So step up ProWritingAid to the rescue!

Whilst some writing can be more cavalier with their grammar, spelling and style, much of what we write cannot. It’s no use sending something poetic to your employer or a client if what they expect is brevity and accuracy.

ProWritingAid could be your new weapon of choice. It’s a really, really comprehensive tool which tackles just about everything you could possibly need from a virtual assistant.

Now, I’m not going to pretend that I know what all of the features of ProWritingAid do, but I am going to list them out as a way of demonstrating that this is not some shiny new tool with no meat on the bones! It’s a fully fleshed out piece of software with heritage and an established user base.

So it’s able to help with the following:

• real-time editing in just about any situation you can think of, forms, Google Docs, Word, browser extension… basically anywhere that you can type
• checks for grammar, style, spelling and other issues
• comprehensive summaries of your writing so you know exactly where you ought to place your attention
• built-in thesaurus
• checks for overused words
• checks for repeated words and phrases
• sentence structure / length advice
• readability guidance for…
  • diction
  • cliches
  • pronouns
  • alliteration
  • consistancy
  • pacing
  • plagarism
  • text expansion
  • and more…

ProWritingAid is one of those tools you did not know that you needed until you try it, and then you wish you’d had it years ago.

In the podcast today we talk to Chris Banks about ProWritingAid. He’s the founder, and so really, really knows what it’s all about.

We start off discussing the product and all the features it offers. This is done in a feature-by-feature format, getting into each of those one at a time, and dissected what they are and how they work. There were too many to talk about, really. So at the end, we had to curtail the chat, which is a shame, but illustrates the point that the software is so feature rich and not a new kid on the block.

We also get into why he built the software; what problems was he trying to solve and for whom?

There’s also a short digression into the security model of the software. Obviously, you’re letting a third-party app read the content you create, and so you might have concerns about where this data is sent to and stored. Chris addresses that.

At the end, we talk about the roadmap and what is in store in the future of ProWritingAid. Is the company a viable option for the future, in other words, are they profitable and able to honour the investment that new customers make?

Really nice chat, with a really nice guy about a really nice product!

Any, yes, I used ProWritingAid on this post, but I confess to not following 100% of the suggested improvements, because I’m stubborn!

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ProWritingAid WordPress plugin on Github.