Posted By Inventrix on March 31, 2012
So my friend B found and linked to this site, Grammarly, and I was intrigued, so decided to check it out.
In order to get an actual breakdown of the proofreading, however, you need to register.
And in order to register, you need to give them payment information for a 7-day free trial with automatic billing if you don’t cancel your subscription before then.
SO! In order to save any of my fellows the trouble of doing that, I have done it and am presenting a detailed summary of how well (or not) it works!
TL;DR: it is terrible for fiction, might be good for academic or professional paper writing.
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Posted By Inventrix on January 21, 2012
I spent all afternoon on the EXTREMELY PRODUCTIVE task of writing up an astrological analysis of the natal chart of my fictional character, Leofric
The chart itself is available here
The analysis follows below!
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Posted By Inventrix on November 2, 2011
Most of my writing lately has been random little one-shot flash fics or working on the massive first revision for Invisible Dragons, so when November rolled around and I had to Just Write, it was kind of like riding a bicycle when you haven’t for, oh… a decade or so. But I’ve gotten the hang [...]
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Tags: NaNoWriMo, writing
Posted By Inventrix on September 12, 2011
I’ve been working my way through a drawing meme which is essentially expression practice: twenty five boxes, each labelled with an emotion/expression, for you to draw your character with said expression. I’ve decided to start with Theo. One thing I’ve noticed – which is a thing I’ve noticed before – is that some expressions are [...]
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Posted By Inventrix on September 5, 2011
So there I was, browsing the soup aisle at the local-to-the-office 7-11 in the hopes of finding something edible. As I straighten up from peering at the instant ramen on the bottom shelf, a man just down the aisle catches my eye. “Hey, is that your car out front?” I grace him with my very [...]
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Posted By Inventrix on August 17, 2011
So, yesterday Lyn dangled the tantalizing carrot in front of my nose of the possibility of Leofric being a character in the canon timeline. Very tantalizing carrot. Oh, and then I found out that Phelen and Wren (yay Wren) have a shadow-raven-baby, which gave me ideas. SO. I’ve been spending a good amount of thought [...]
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Posted By Inventrix on August 1, 2011
OTAKON 2011 RECAP TIME YAYYYYY I really want to go take a nap but I am like, I should get this all down before I start forgetting things. FRIDAY tl;dr GOT TO MEET COFFEE! Everyone asked for my ID but it worked out anyway, Noodles & Co. is great, I didn’t take enough pictures, AMV [...]
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Tags: anime, conventions, otakon
Posted By Inventrix on July 21, 2011
I’ve finally decided in favor of making a new blog specifically to keep my writings on, over at http://scribbles.rustedphoenix.net. Things this means for you All short stories, excerpts, poems, flash fiction et. al. that are on here (except for a few which I think are really awful) will be reposted there, over the course of [...]
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Posted By Inventrix on June 7, 2011
Basically, the title. Most steampunks view it as an aesthetic philosophy. Some as a literary philosophy. And some as a life philosophy, which combines elements of the first two. I happen to view it as a life philosophy. (Which explains why people who clearly do not get it make me rage! Because I am like [...]
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Posted By Inventrix on June 6, 2011
So, Nathan Blevins asked me on twitter about what sort of special tools I use to aid in my writing. (Fiction/novel writing, for those of you new to my endeavors.) It’s a tough question, largely because I really am still quite new to this whole novel-writing. I think my first serious attempt at writing was [...]
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