Found a Useful Editing Tool Today

Editor from Serenity Software (http://www.serenity-software.com/)
 
(As the guy who came up with the oh-so-original name "The Journal", I can't really complain about someone naming their software "Editor".)
 
Editor is copyediting and proofreading software.
 
It's ugly. It's way past ugly.
 
But it works.
 
I gave Editor a test run today, letting it have a go at my story, "Baptism".
 
I had Editor save its output to a couple text files so I could open them in a much friendlier UI than what the software itself provides. I used TextPad (a text editor). That way I could have the "draft" version of the story text with its numbered sentences open beside Editor's "usage" report. Then I pulled up the work-in-progress entry for the story in The Journal. It was a lot of open windows, but it was workable. I reviewed the points of contention brought up by Editor (like, oh, look, a sentence fragment; didn't see that coming), and if I thought Editor had a good point, I edited the story (not so much on the sentence fragments, though).
 
Editor knows more about the English language and English usage than I do. It didn't take me long to realize that.
 
And I decided after just this one go-round that Editor is now part of my finishing process. For just $55, it's a bargain.
 
-David