Bleh

[glitteringstars]

Been a bit sick the last few days, so I've been just doing nothing besides video games and thinking about writing. I had a bit more energy today, so I took a crack at some editing. Unfortunately, it seems grammar checks native to writing programs have gone the way of the dodo, and I've reluctantly started using the trail run on Grammarly. I know it's decent, but I'm frustrated I gotta sign up for it. I would kill to just have a plug-in for Scrivener that I just pay for once, attach and never think of again.

I could just pay for Word again, but I despise the recent renditions of it and it's a subscription model. I wrote with Word 2003 for a decade, and that is the platonic ideal of what I want a word processor program to look like. Scrivener hits the right beats for me, but makes it so much easier to not have a billion documents open at once. Best sum of money I've put down on a program.

I've done a bit of poking around for a grammar checker for the Windows version of Scrivener, and I did find ProWritingAid, but it comes with a whole bunch of doodads and whistles. It touts being a virtual beta reader, but I'm a Luddite that deeply prefers having a living, breathing beta reader.

Comments

[musekicker]

I'm unsure if Libreoffice would be of use for what you're looking for. I know it's a free writing program that has spell check for sure. I'm unsure if they have grammer check though. I suggest looking into it.

[glitteringstars]

I actually use LibreOffice! It's my default for things unrelated to writing long-form stories--in fact, it was the program I was writing my current fic on before the size became a bit much for my purposes. I mainly moved over to Scrivener because it allows easy organization for big projects, and it's one of the few programs left where you need to only buy it once and the program license is yours.

Given LibreOffice is opensource, I wouldn't be too surprise if the community created a plugin or extension for it. Though trying to dig and find a good one will take a bit of time.

[cyare]

A fellow hater of subscription models, hello *shakes hand*