Writing Technology

First, let me just say, writers and editors would be foolish not to make use of any technology that could be beneficial to the writing progress. Programs such as Grammarly serve a valuable function, and I always run clients' work through software before and after an edit, in case it spots something I missed. However, it's important to remember that when something is 'flagged,' it is not telling you something is 'wrong' per se. It is pointing out places where you might find something you want changed. It does not know if you meant to say its or it's, there or their or even meet, mete and meat.

A client once wrote to complain that after my editing, his book was rife with errors. He found errors. His friends found errors. His mother's maid's stepmother thinks she found some errors. I naturally pulled up his files, expecting to …