If anyone else is using libreoffice to write like I do, there's an extension called WritingTool that does a much better grammar check than the built-in grammar check. It can connect to a paid external service called LanguageTool, but it can also run all kinds of checks without any external service.
You need to make sure to install the latest Java jre before doing anything with it, but once it's all set up it works pretty well. I also downloaded an 8GB ngram file that's supposed to be helpful for making sure I'm not using the wrong word, but I don't know how helpful that is yet.
For the record, I don't much care for editing. "You must inspect every quotation mark to ensure the tails are going in the right direction, and did you use the correct comma before every or and and?" -- it's important in the long run to have a proper published work, but that doesn't mean it's fun compared to the actual writing part.
You need to make sure to install the latest Java jre before doing anything with it, but once it's all set up it works pretty well. I also downloaded an 8GB ngram file that's supposed to be helpful for making sure I'm not using the wrong word, but I don't know how helpful that is yet.
For the record, I don't much care for editing. "You must inspect every quotation mark to ensure the tails are going in the right direction, and did you use the correct comma before every or and and?" -- it's important in the long run to have a proper published work, but that doesn't mean it's fun compared to the actual writing part.
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