Software review: “Editor” by Serenity Software. I’m working with a piece of software that might be of interest to those who self- publish. It’s got the catchy name of “Editor”, a product of Serenity Software. PC World gave it four out of five stars. Serenity Editor Review Review of Serenity Editor. Editor is not a spelling checker, though it can edit at the sentence, phrase and word level in order to find. As a writer and an editor, I have a love-hate relationship with Serenity Software's Editor (various pricing; ten-day free trial). This copyediting and. Since I’ve started using it, it’s pointed out some mushy text that benefited from being changed. The software scans the text for the following (click the image to enlarge it): Notice that this goes well beyond the spelling and grammar check that’s part of MS Word. Fortunately, I haven’t yet had any of my prose flagged for “pretentious term”, but I have gotten flagged for weak constructions such as starting a sentence with “It was. It then checks each sentence for potentially incorrect, odd or clumsy constructions, punctuations, spellings, etc. Free full download Serenity Editor from AYS search results.We have many downloads related to Serenity Editor which are hosted on sites like rapidgator, extabit. Serenity, free photo file, #1526353, serenity. Free Photos New Images Popular Images Editor's Picks Lightboxes Photographers Cameras. Serenity Editor 5.0.0 Fast Download via Rapidshare Upload Filehosting Megaupload, Serenity Editor 5.0.0 Torrents and Emule Download or anything related. Serenity, photo file, #1433273, serenity. Free Photos New Images Popular Images Editor's Picks Lightboxes Photographers Cameras. The basic version of the software then gives you an output listing each sentence in which it found a potential problem. This is the first part of the output for Editor’s scan of my book, “Verbosity’s Vengeance”. It’s telling me what it sees as potential problems with sentences 4. To fix these, I scroll through the amended OUTPUT version of my file, looking at the sentence numbers it’s inserted. Here’s what the analysis output looks like: FIX? There’s a grammatical mistake in sentence 6. Note that I considered this book finished enough that I’ve been querying it to agents for months, yet in the first five minutes, I’ve gotten three dozen relatively subtle suggestions for improvement. These are things that I missed, that my beta readers missed, that my test reader missed and that MS Word missed. Another form of analysis within Editor offers stylistic suggestions. Here are some potential issues with sentences 2. I’ve? That’s good to know. Another part of the Editor software looks for word repetition patterns. Have you ever read a book where the author used the word “gleaming” twice in one sentence? Or repeated a phrase he or she apparently loved, like “her eyes flashed darkly”? Phrases like that can pop up only a couple of times in a book, but they stick in the reader’s mind. This software looks for all repetitions of all phrases up to 6 words, throughout the entire book. This is VERY useful for weeding out those scenes that got moved, but not completely deleted from the original location. In another analysis mode, Editor numbers the paragraphs and tells you which words get repeated in each and how many times. Here is the analysis of paragraphs #9. Worth taking another look at? The slightly more expensive version of this software comes with a plug- in for MS Word. It will analyze a . You can make the corrections on the spot, decide to ignore the suggestion or flag it for a later rewrite. I’ve only just started using Editor, but it has already shown me a number of ways my prose could be tightened, sharpened and cleaned up. Is this software a substitute for a talented human content editor, copy editor and/or line editor? It assumes that you are already saying essentially what you want to say with your prose. It won’t tell you that the plot is too slow in the middle third or that your hero is an ass or that you spend too much time describing the food your characters are about to eat. However, it is several important steps up from the spelling and grammar tools loaded into MS Word. The high end version of Editor is $7.
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