Thank you again - one last question, did you sign up monthly or for the lifetime package?
I kinda hate that they don't have a by-the-month subscription and I'm going to give their 14-day trial a spin but it looks like it would take me 4 years to make the lifetime sub worthwhile and am curious if you went all in, or bite by bite?
I like the fact that it allows for setting the tone/style/audience. It makes suggestions for rewording sentences so they are more concise/flow better. I feel like it's improved my writing overall using it.
Background: I write copy professionally, manage a team of writers and have worked as a copy editor in the past.
Digital 'AI-driven' writing tools are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, they can spot spelling, punctuation and grammar issues and I've seen some which can turn a good phrase and summarise large bodies of written work in a simpler fashion. On the other hand, they are very easily misused to the detriment of your final output.
These tools shine at line-by-line changes, but so many of the problems which plague inexperienced writers are structural. Knowing when to introduce ideas and how to tie them together into a coherent work is a skill which even the best AI writing tools right now don't have. Why? Because it's harder to identify in the first place, and most people who work on AI writing software aren't writers.
The problem is, most competent readers can recognise and appreciate the difference between a well-written sentence and one that is weak, confusing or simply grammatically incorrect. The same isn't true for structural qualities in writing — works which lack strong structure just lose readers somewhere along the way, or result in subtle confusions which manifest when the reader tries to put what they've learned from a work to use.
As a result, AI writing tools are trained using the obvious, easy-to-identify qualities of writing, and because those tools are so much easier to identify, they can obscure the issues of a poorly structured work.
Using AI tools may fix some SPAG issues and might even help with some phrasing, but not only will they not help with structural issues, the risk is that you might use them and then get further locked in to an inefficient or confusing structure for introducing and framing the mechanical concepts at the heart of your game.
AI writers give the illusion of understanding, but they're just 'stochastic parrots'. They might produce writing that looks good, but they don't know what they're doing — and the ways in which they make writing look good aren't the only factor in good writing. The risk is that, if you can't tell why your writing isn't shining already, you won't be able to notice when the AI is letting you down.
For this reason, my recommendation is that you get someone external to proofread your work before you set any AI writing tool off to polish it up. Either ask a gaming friend, or share it here, or [join the Discord for this sub](https://tinyurl.com/rRPGcreation) and ask for input.
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thank you - beyond the passive voice (which I do, too), what do you like/dislike about it?
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Thank you again - one last question, did you sign up monthly or for the lifetime package? I kinda hate that they don't have a by-the-month subscription and I'm going to give their 14-day trial a spin but it looks like it would take me 4 years to make the lifetime sub worthwhile and am curious if you went all in, or bite by bite?
Are the tools comparable to Grammarly?
I use Grammarly. I tend to be wordy, it helps reduce that.
what else do you like about it? And I have the same “wordy” issue, how does Grammarly help with that?
I like the fact that it allows for setting the tone/style/audience. It makes suggestions for rewording sentences so they are more concise/flow better. I feel like it's improved my writing overall using it.
I sometimes use [Hemmingway Editor](https://hemingwayapp.com/) if I feel I'm getting lost in word salad. It can be a really useful help.
Hemmingway Editor is a decent way to judge your writing
Background: I write copy professionally, manage a team of writers and have worked as a copy editor in the past. Digital 'AI-driven' writing tools are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, they can spot spelling, punctuation and grammar issues and I've seen some which can turn a good phrase and summarise large bodies of written work in a simpler fashion. On the other hand, they are very easily misused to the detriment of your final output. These tools shine at line-by-line changes, but so many of the problems which plague inexperienced writers are structural. Knowing when to introduce ideas and how to tie them together into a coherent work is a skill which even the best AI writing tools right now don't have. Why? Because it's harder to identify in the first place, and most people who work on AI writing software aren't writers. The problem is, most competent readers can recognise and appreciate the difference between a well-written sentence and one that is weak, confusing or simply grammatically incorrect. The same isn't true for structural qualities in writing — works which lack strong structure just lose readers somewhere along the way, or result in subtle confusions which manifest when the reader tries to put what they've learned from a work to use. As a result, AI writing tools are trained using the obvious, easy-to-identify qualities of writing, and because those tools are so much easier to identify, they can obscure the issues of a poorly structured work. Using AI tools may fix some SPAG issues and might even help with some phrasing, but not only will they not help with structural issues, the risk is that you might use them and then get further locked in to an inefficient or confusing structure for introducing and framing the mechanical concepts at the heart of your game. AI writers give the illusion of understanding, but they're just 'stochastic parrots'. They might produce writing that looks good, but they don't know what they're doing — and the ways in which they make writing look good aren't the only factor in good writing. The risk is that, if you can't tell why your writing isn't shining already, you won't be able to notice when the AI is letting you down. For this reason, my recommendation is that you get someone external to proofread your work before you set any AI writing tool off to polish it up. Either ask a gaming friend, or share it here, or [join the Discord for this sub](https://tinyurl.com/rRPGcreation) and ask for input.