Using ProWritingAid For Editing Your Manuscript

We all want to make our writing the best it can be, and in this video, I demonstrate how you can use ProWritingAid to improve your manuscript before working with a human editor.



Watch below or here on YouTube.









Time stamps



00:27 — Why use an editing tool anyway? 01:22 — How I use Scrivener with ProWritingAid and go through chapter by chapter 01:42 — Demo starts. Fixing typos, spacing issues and rephrases 03:01 — Fixing passive writing 03:47 — Fixing overwriting and tightening the manuscript 04:09 — Rephrasing 05:22 — Using Sparks to find new ideas and different directions 08:38 — Using the Reports to find issues and improve 09:06 — Changing the genre to get better reports 09:36 — Finding help with understanding different elements 10:26 — Sentence length and variability 10:44 — Pacing 11:09 — Critique report including strengths and improvements 12:18 — Clichés 13:06 — Save everything 13:30 — I export from Scrivener to MS Word, Then I send the manuscript to my human editor, Kristen Tate.



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More related resources:




My Scrivener tutorial for fiction and non-fiction



Discussion with my editor Kristen Tate about different kinds of editing, and how we both find ProWritingAid useful



List of (human) editors



How to find and work with a (human) editor



Other tools I use and tutorials




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