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Pro Writing Aid is on such crack. I use actual line-breaks; it doesn’t recognize them as line-breaks and cries about “scenes bleeding into each other” and “mid-scene shifts in POV.” I use extra spaces, ditto, and same with several other ideas. It wasn’t even recognizing transitions, as it tends to. Well, I finally broke down and started writing this...
Quote****Scene (or) Scene and POV change****
************************************************************************...every time I change to a new scene, just to hammer it in for the programming. This does not make it onto the finished product; I replace it with a proper line-break before posting because my readers aren’t morons. Well, today, PWA has something new to cry about:
QuoteThe use of explicit text markers like "Scene and POV change" is an intrusive structural element that pulls the reader out of the narrative. These markers act as "speed bumps," breaking the immersion that a smooth narrative transition or a simple scene break should provide.
Make up your goddamn mind, you worthless pile of code! I can’t psychically implant into your processors that I’m changing the scene, and you can’t recognize that a scene is being changed, so what the hell am I supposed to do? Just let your tantrum drag down my writing score because you can’t find any actual errors that need to be fixed?!
I swear. My writing skills have improved since I started using this app for editing, but my blood pressure has worsened. It wouldn’t be such a pain in the ass if any of the errors I’ve reported had ever been addressed instead of just happening time and time again.
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You’re not doing anything wrong; that’s actually an option suggested by the program. It just doesn’t work for me. If it works for you, more power to you. 🙂 If what I wrote came across judgy, I’m sorry about that; it wasn’t intentional.
My focus in college was creative writing and literature, but it was long enough ago that some of what we were taught is now obscure if not obsolete. Think following the origin language’s rules for words adopted into English, shorthand as a subject, tab-starting instead of adding an extra line between paragraphs and two spaces after a sentence, etc. It’s left me with some tough habits to break—or cling to like life rafts—and some newer practices make my brain short circuit. (“Anti-Capital-ism,” apparently, is a thing, and it has nothing to do with money or capitalism. It makes my brain hurt.)
Frankly, my college and university didn’t even have programming or computer science degrees until a few years after I left “because these computer things are just a fad” and “nobody is going to spend money on a degree that won’t make them money.” I’m impressed anytime someone can make computers work because my school district, in their stubbornness, raised a whole generation of technologically illiterate students. The other day, I took my (wired, optical) mouse apart to clean out the cat hair and almost couldn’t put the damned thing back together. It had four removable parts. 🫠
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what the hell am I supposed to do? Just let your tantrum drag down my writing score because you can’t find any actual errors that need to be fixed?!
I had a boss like that once. It prompted me to find a new job.
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I’m definitely in that “two spaces after a sentence” crowd, and somebody trying to use correct grammar/syntax – which, apparently, is also an indicator of being AI written. (Think my biggest beef with AI is what the hype is doing to computer part prices!) My background...yeah, my SAT written was pretty abysmal, it was the math portion that did the heavy lifting. (At that time, only two components, not the current three.) And in school, pretty much believed what my mother had latched onto, that “I hated writing”; took Harry Potter fanfiction for me to realize it was directed writing that I hated, thus creative what I want to write on just for fun – got a 2.6M fanfic that’s proof there.