Author Resources: Tools and Software

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ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid: Includes all the features of Hemingway, plus much much more. Grammar checking, word echo checking, style checking, passive voice monitoring, etc, etc. ProWritingAid is a really powerful piece of editing software. Honestly, a little too much for some folks, imho. If you do end up picking this one, I'd recommend choosing a few editing features to use- using too many would cut into your author voice, imho. Has subscription and purchased (lifetime) versions. This one's a bit on the expensive side, but if you want it, I'd personally recommend waiting for a good sale to pick up the lifetime option. Not a replacement for a human editor.

#Grammar Checker #Writing Tools #Spell Checker 65 social mentions

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Hemingway

Hemingway Editor: Free online text editor that helps you cut down your text, making it more streamlined and focused- much like the prose of Ernest Hemingway, who it's named after. It's pretty solid at what it does, but a few caveats- first, it doesn't catch grammatical errors and such, it's just a style editor. And second, you don't always want to write in a Hemingway-esque style. And third, it's really only useful for short excerpts- there's not a great way to load a whole novel into there. Still, if that's what you're looking for, it gets a solid recommendation from me. There's also a paid desktop version that's fairly cheap and available offline. Not a replacement for a human editor.

#Writing Tools #Grammar Checker #Markdown Editor 263 social mentions

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Dropbox

Dropbox: You absolutely NEED backups. Ideally, both physical and cloud backups, because if you only have one backup, you're not backed up. I can't even begin to tell you how many writers have lost days, weeks, or even entire novels worth of work because they failed to back up their work, then had their computer break or had some weird software snafu. Dropbox is my preferred cloud backup solution, because you can just set up a Dropbox folder on your desktop and save files directly into it. You'll probably need a subscription eventually- the free version doesn't have a ton of empty space.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Office Suites 28 social mentions

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calibre

Calibre: E-book manager, useful for making sure the ebooks you make are actually working right. Free, open source.

#eBook Manager #eBook Reader #eBook Converter 546 social mentions

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novelWriter

Https://novelwriter.io/ is free and open source (I haven't used it, only know about it).

#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing 17 social mentions

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Reedsy Book Editor

#Writing #Writing Tools #Books 14 social mentions

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bibisco

#Writing Tools #Writing #Markdown Editor 13 social mentions