I typed the following into the free version of Prowriting aid - when the day began, Sean did not expect to dye. Note the use of the lower case w and dye should in context be die. Yet the grammar checker said no issues!
Hi! On my end, PWA did catch "when" as a mistake, but not "dye"-very likely because "dye" as a verb works in that context and is not a grammar mistake exactly. Sean could be a tanner who may have expected to cut, but not dye, leather that day.
Great content, got a lot from that, might have to come back and watch again. My thoughts on how to get descriptions right is to assume your reader is going to imagine the scene far better than any writer could ever describe it, so our job is to just scatter a few clues, make a few tentative brushstrokes, and trust the reader to fill in the rest. Does that seem right?
I typed the following into the free version of Prowriting aid -
when the day began, Sean did not expect to dye. Note the use of the lower case w and dye should in context be die. Yet the grammar checker said no issues!
Hi! On my end, PWA did catch "when" as a mistake, but not "dye"-very likely because "dye" as a verb works in that context and is not a grammar mistake exactly. Sean could be a tanner who may have expected to cut, but not dye, leather that day.
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Great content, got a lot from that, might have to come back and watch again. My thoughts on how to get descriptions right is to assume your reader is going to imagine the scene far better than any writer could ever describe it, so our job is to just scatter a few clues, make a few tentative brushstrokes, and trust the reader to fill in the rest. Does that seem right?
Most excellent! Thank you.