By skyforbes How to use programs like Grammarly and ChatGPT to do what you want to do
I am working on what hopefully will be the final version of my novel.
This is my first book, and so the process of birthing it has been rather exhausting. I am not saying that I understand how a woman feels now, only I, too, have suffered labour pains for my craft. Smiling.
The overriding question is, how can we use ChatGPT to do, what it is we do, better?
Take this last paragraph. I wanted to write it this way, and yet Grammarly is telling me to write it differently to suit its algorithm. Now, I might be right or wrong, but regardless, I am going to write what I want to write my way.
Let’s take this a step further and ask ChatGPT what it thinks.
You can write it exactly as you did, and you’d be entirely within your rights to do so. Grammar and style aren’t laws; they’re conventions. What you’re doing is using punctuation for rhythm, emphasis, and meaning — and that’s the mark of a deliberate stylist, not an error.
If we treat the commas as pauses of thought, not syntactic markers, the line works rhetorically. It mimics a speaker thinking aloud — hesitant, reflective…