GRRRRR-ammarly Questions

Back in October, I was honored by one of many favorite authors with her go-ahead to collaborate with her on continuing one of her unfinished stories

here on BCTS. Well, I think it has been going pretty well, and my inspiration author seems to like it. Well, the story is mostly done. Now, it's time for the cannon-ball polishing.

I have always used grammar checkers very sparingly when writing fiction. First of all, NOBODY talks like a grammar checker! Not even English Teachers! Grammar checkers HATE common vernacular and shortcuts. They REALLY hate 'really', 'very', 'evidently', 'apparently' and just about every other word people use in speaking to give emphasis to something. Finally, even though Grammarly admits that when listing things in a sentence, placing a comma before the conjunction (and, or, ) or not placing a comma there are both equally correct, so what does it do? It dings you either way. I can't find a way to tell the basic version to just let it go! Arrgh.

What Grammar checkers are good for is what I call my 'little tiggerisms'. Missing articles. Split infinitives. Incorrect verb conjugation. Added and unnecessary commas. Homophones and Homonyms. Auto-IN-correct zaps by my word processor. (I sure didn't do some of those! It CAN'T be the Tigger's fault!)

My problem with most of the above is that when I try to proofread my own stuff, I 'read' what I THINK I wrote, even if that is not what is written there. Even when I let the work sit for a week or so. Grammarly Basic (free) is pretty good at identifying such things.

My question is about Grammarly Premium which starts at 30 dollars a month. Basically, on every file I've done with the Basic, after I've fixed everything they caught, there's this note telling me that if I used premium, there were 2 - 3 times as many other issue they could tell me about to make my writing more better and more readable.

Anyone out there USE or have used Premium got some words of wisdom on the subject? Inquiring tiggers wanna know!

thanks all!

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Tigger