Quillbot vs. WordAI: A Comparison of Article Rewriting Tools - DiggiNet

Today Panzer made a trip to the DiggiNet site. There with some digging in the posts he found one about two AI article rewriting tools.

 

You should admit you didn't write it.

In her post Anita Nipane compares the features of Quillbot and WordAI. Both have you paste your article(s) into  the input box, but from there they go in different directions. Quillbot is for smaller jobs and will change sentences and phrases, check grammar and check for plagiarism, and several other features, but not all are available in the free version. WordAI is for larger jobs and will accept bulk article uploads, change sentences and paragraphs, and make the articles "more human," but there is no free version. Basically, you need to decide how much of your original article you want to retain and how much you want the AI to rewrite it. The post is an in depth look at both AI tools and includes instructions for using both.

 

Panzer says, "Interesting."

 

Note: This is a long post. Bring a thermos of cocoa, a muffin, a brownie, and two chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) for today's reading.

 

To read the post tootle over to Quillbot vs Wordai

MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Quicksand on Your Desk

Help! It's got me!

Panzer checked in at the Make Mine Mystery blog. Your intrepid feline traveler found Janis Patterson's post there very enlightening.

My bad boy never knew about the quicksand on our desk. And ... he didn't know ... that's why we've been having such a hard time finishing the rewrite on our new project.

Janis says if we're not careful, we'll all be sucked right down into that quagmire called ... the Internet. There. Panzer said it. The name of the evil pit. The Internet. Go anywhere near it and it'll suck you in and not let you go!

Panzer says, "We've got to save our friends! We lost too many already!"

If you're interested in protecting yourself from the quicksand, tootle over to MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Quicksand on Your Desk: by Janis Patterson

Before Revising Your NaNoWriMo Novel

As Panzer and I told you a few days ago, we took part in this year's National Novel Writing Month.

We're still recuperating, so we haven't started the rewriting and editing on our novel yet. We're glad we haven't because Panzer found a post by Angela Ackerman at the Writers Helping Writers blog. Angela discusses the things to do before you start your rewrite and edit of your NaNoWriMo novel.

The first thing is to let the novel rest. Set it aside and don't read it. While it's resting you need to think about your character development and plot development. Were there some things that didn't seem to work while you were writing? These steps will get you ready to start the rewriting and editing.

Panzer says, "These should be what you do with everything you write."

If you want to know how to go about rewriting and editing your work, tootle over to Your Nanowrimo Novel

National Novel Writing Month

Panzer's claws are down to little bloody nubs, but we are winners in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

Happy Cat Dance!

We wrote a 50,000 word novel in November! That's 50,000 words in one month!

Now starts the hard part. The rewrite/revision. Grrr!

A Powerful Storytelling Tool: Getting Readers to Fill In Your Character’s Blanks

Ouch!

Panzer is back at K.M. Weiland's blog Helping Writers Become Authors. He found a guest post by ghostwriter Roz Morris about letting your readers fill in character blanks in your story.

Panzer and I sometimes have a hard time deciding what to include and what to leave out when writing. Sometimes things that seem so obvious to us that we don't need to include them in the first draft wind up being added during the revision process. And once or twice when we thought we'd made it obvious our readers pointed out ... ouch ... we hadn't.

So, Panzer says, if you want to make your readers happy, tootle on over to A Powerful Storytelling Tool: Getting Readers to Fill In Your Character’s Blanks

Karen Woodward: 6 Ways To Get Rid Of Infodumps At The Beginning Of...

Infodump. Infodunp. Te he he he!

Panzer loves Karen Woodward's blog! She always has such informative posts. And he also loves the titles for her posts ... infodumps ... infodumps ... infodumps.

Panzer and I have to confess we're guilty of the infodump in our first drafts. But, if we take Karen's advice and follow her six steps, maybe we won't have to spend so much time rewriting!

So ... if you too are guilty of the beginning infodump and want to know how to avoid it, tootle on over to Karen Woodward: 6 Ways To Get Rid Of Infodumps At The Beginning Of...: There are two entrenched ways of thinking about story openings. Folks either think a story needs to open with setting and a detailed in...

Rewriting and Story Arcs

There are not many rules of writing I actually follow.  My motto is Learn the rules so, when you break them, you do it on purpose not through stupidity.

There is one writing rule, however, I never break.

"And what rule would that be?" you ask. 

It is, "Don't submit your story as soon as you finish it."  Put your manuscript aside for a few days (or weeks) after you've finished it. When you go back to it, you'll be reading with fresh eyes. You'll see the typos, the bad grammar, but most of all you'll see the character inconsistencies in the story/character arc. This is when my rewriting really starts.

At the beginning of the story my main character is presented with a problem to overcome. She doesn't know if she can overcome it. She tries and fails. She tries again, but it seems insurmountable. She tries again and succeeds. By the end of the story she has to have changed so the success is believable. Everything that happens in the story has to contribute to that believable success.

If you're interested in learning more about the story/character arc and how to use it in your stories, Carrie Ryan blogged at Magical Words on story arcs  and how she uses them in her stories. Let me know if it helps your story writing.