How To Use ProWritingAid To Improve Your Writing With Chris Banks

You cannot see many of the problems with your own writing, as you are so close to the manuscript. ProWritingAid can help you self-edit your work before you take it on to a human editor, so they can focus on the bigger issues.

In this episode, Chris Banks, the CEO of ProWritingAid talks about how developments in AI have added functionality to the software to help writers even more.

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Chris Banks is the CEO and founder of ProWritingAid, which has over 1.5 million users worldwide.

You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

Show Notes

* The key benefits of ProWritingAid

* The evolution of grammar tools as technology accelerates

* Skepticism about using AI tools in your writing and how to overcome it

* AI tools as a creative companion

* Can using AI tools lead to plagiarism?

* Problems with tools that ‘detect' AI-generated writing

* Why this is such an exciting time for creatives

You can find Chris at ProWritingAid.com

Transcript of Interview with Chris Banks

Chris: Chris Banks is the CEO and founder of ProWritingAid, which has over 1.5 million users worldwide, including myself. So welcome back to the show, Chris.

Thanks, Joanna. It's a pleasure to be here.

Joanna: Oh, yes. We were talking before about how we're so excited right now about all the things going on. But before we look forward—

Let's just tell people a bit more about ProWritingAid.

So if anyone doesn't know it, can you give us just a brief overview of some of the key benefits?

Chris: Yes. Well, the tool basically is designed to make writing fun and easy. We try and do all of the heavy lifting and take away the difficult bits of writing. So all of the kind of boring bits that you might struggle with, all of the things that take a lot of time and don't bring you any joy, ProWritingAid is designed to help you get rid of those and to make your life a lot easier and fun.

Joanna: And just some of the specifics. So I use it for editing, and it does things like pick up my terrible comma usage and some of my passive language, which I always use. Anything else that you think is commonly used by authors?

Chris: Yes, I think I designed the tool to help myself and to criticize myself, to find all of the mistakes that I was making when I was writing. I think when you're doing a first draft, I always think of the first draft as a  quote by Shannon Hale, where “you're just piling up sand so that later you can build castles out of it.”