i was wondering what most fo you use as a formal speel checker and grammar corrector program i use the free grammarly program but i find in lacking to purchace to upgrade where i believe its much better is out of my budget – and they have no seniors discount – quilbot is the cheapest full progam i can find at 6.66 a month that has full features – i write just as a hobby short stories for preteen children etc and such and have five flushed out stories to edit my young editor friend who used to do that for me when he visited me he was a english major, has just annouced he is going away to school in the new year over to europe, i will sadly miss his visits this leaves me in the lurch and need a cheap good program to edit my stories which i then read to those young poeple at the library on story night in a serial form week to week , i usully hand copies of the stories those serialized chapters each week to them so i need them up to stuff and some day after i have about ten stories competely done i would like to properly publlish them- i find writing helps with the pain i have time to time that can’t be controlled by medication or at lest legal meds, or even losing at go and chess or reading the forums here which used to give me some form of relief,you know what the say one form of pain releaves another anyways any advice would be greatly aprreciated
Have you tried searching “grammarly alternatives” on google first? What did you find?
there are many companies all touting they are the best for writers - the closest program i could afford was quillbot ai software they havea special at 6.66 us a month paid yearly up front, that for the features seems to be the best choice so far – i have counted 21 type of ai bots that help writers but all are just to expensive for me to use being a a very fixed limited budget pension. so any ideas you have would be greattly aprreciated
It’s unclear why you need to use AI for what you’ve described.
Most free word processing programs (like libreoffice), have built-in spell checkers and even grammar checkers.
As a writer you would be best served to use any guidance from such an external source advisedly - as you know best when it comes to the language used in your own creative stories.
Good luck.
As a former writer myself, you don’t need to pay for a program to do the editing for you. Even someone like yourself, who finds it seemingly difficult to make grammar and spell checks in this forum, there should be no need for you to pay for a checker of any kind.
I say this as someone who typically makes a lot of typographical errors in my writing on a day-to-day basis. Grammarly free version is fine…it does glitch out a lot, but what i have found is if you turn it off and on again for the webpage you are using, it usually then comes back on and works fine.
Alternatively, you can also open the Grammarly webpage and paste your text there to get it checked. Alternatively, you may find it easier to use something like Google Docs, which has a built-in checker (which isn’t fantastic, but is functional).
Alternatively, you can also get Microsoft Word, which also has a built-in checker, and I’m pretty sure that it’s quite good.
If you need a professional level of service, though, the only way you are going to get that is either learn yourself how to write better, or two, pay for a subscription model.
My personal opinion on this… is somewhat twofold. I don’t write anymore, really. I have been considering getting back into writing. I personally think it is incumbent on the person writing to improve their craft as much as possible, with or without the use of tools to aid in that. I generally do not think that one needs to pay for a service to write at a professional level. Having said that, I also know that there are tools out there that are specifically designed to rewrite and write for the person who wishes to tell a story… We live in a world where AI exists, so while i would say that the use of tools is acceptable, and even necessary to a certain extent, the type of tool matters, and i would strongly suggest any writer to steer clear of any AI-based tools.
I am so glad Chinese is a logogram, and Japanese often use the double meanings for phrases even if you “spell” them wrong.
The frontier AI’s are language models. If there’s one thing they can do well, it’s language. So why not use any of the big ones?
For example: https://chatgpt.com/ is within limits free.
Use it by asking it something like:
“I will paste a paragraph of my story. Improve the spelling and the grammar, while keeping as much of my writing style intact. If you see other improvements, let me know, but don’t edit them in yourself”.
Then paste your paragraph.
See how that goes.
If you run out of free usage, move on to another free AI, like https://gemini.google.com/ and use that one. If you run out of free usage again, changes are that chatGPT has given you more free usage again, and otherwise you’ll just have to wait a bit.
Is no one going to start a gofundme for dokbohm’s former editor?
thanks for all the imput it all does help i do have a eye and brain disorder that makes seeing computor screens difficult its more a clear type thing ans so i miss spell words about 60 % of the time even common ones get misspell a good speel checker and grammar program would help me i am sure - again thx for the input all your suggestions help