Do Editing Programs Help?

Do Editing Programs Help?

I’ve been preparing the draft of Deadly Relations for my editor, and my goal, as always, is to give her the cleanest possible manuscript. I do the obvious, like run spellcheck, search for extra spaces, missing or spurious punctuation, etc.

I’ve mentioned using SmartEdit for finding repeated words, phrases, adverbs, and a dozen other checks. SmartEdit doesn’t check grammar, and I’d heard a lot of people swearing by Grammarly, so I tried that. Wasn’t impressed. Most of th...