Good web-based apps for authors
Grammarly
A free tool that works not just with your author needs but daily tasks like Emails too. From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate errors and find the perfect words to express yourself.
Reedsy Book Editor
Reedsy Book Editor is a free, online word processor that formats your book as you write.
Hemmingway
Hemming way is a free website that allows you to copy and paste text into its browser. It tells you just how complicated your work it. A great tool to look at your sentence structures and learn a little more about them.
Nosili
Nosili is a great online tool that allows you to create your own combinations of background noise to help you focus. Options like wind an leaves help set the tone for some winter writing.
readability score
This web application helps you improve your writing by measuring the readability of your text. A readability score tells you roughly what level of education someone would need in order to read your piece of text easily. Find out how easy your writing is to read.
todoist
Todoist is a task management web application that lets you create to-do lists with recurring dates and times. With Todoist, you can create a custom schedule for every single day. This is fantastic for reminding you of your daily writing goals. For example, you can schedule “writing every day at 8am” or you can create tasks that only recur on specific days, e.g., “research every Friday”.
Coschedule analyzer
The CoSchedule headline analyzer app evaluates how well your blog post’s headline will rank in search engines. It also scores how effectively your headline will result in social shares and click-throughs. The headline analyzer is a fantastic way to hone your copywriting skills and make sure your headlines are irresistible.
Hubspot generator
Sometimes we just run out of ideas of what to blog about. Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator helps you come up with a week’s worth of relevant blog post titles in a matter of seconds. It’s perfect when you’re facing writer’s block.
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novel factory
The Writing Community Chat Show is DELIGHTED to announce that we have teamed up with Novel Factory. A fantastic resource for authors. Anyone who has followed our show will know we have all you wonderful authors in mind. Therefore we fully back this and think it is something that you will most certainly find useful. Not only that, thanks to Novel Factory understanding our aim to help lift and praise all authors, they are giving us commission for each sign up through this link. So, by improving your writing abilities and helping your structure you will be helping us too! Win-win! Check out the video and keep an eye out for our personal favourite attributes, the PLOT OUTLINES feature and the stats. It really is a fantastic tool. PLEASE! Use the link below to sign up if you are interested.