An Open Letter

Dear Grammarly,

It’s you, not me

My dearest, beloved, free Grammarly,

There was a time when you were my only love. Hell, you were my first love. As an editor, I could pull up the next writer’s hopes and dreams as they sat quietly in an over-sized queue, and there you would be right by my side. Two shades of red, blue, a golden-yellow. Oh, my! Those were the days, were they not? When everything was all shiny and new between us… the only thing missing was a new car smell!

But then the writer in me did a piece on free sources to assist writers with their work. I never saw it coming. I never intended to cheat on you, let alone leave you. I thought we’d be together until the day I died or this platform ceased to exist. How was I to know?

Who knew that I’d find something I’d like better? Something with more bells and whistles, and dare I say… something more. Yes, it’s true. ProWritingAid gives me what you never could! Consistency.

But you had a hand in this as well! If you could have just decided once whether a word or phrase was to be or not be (see what I did?) hyphenated, then this would have never happened! You want a hyphen; I add a hyphen, then you don’t want it after all. Over and over with the same word ad nauseam. It was SO frustrating.

But then I met ProWritingAid. PWA gives me everything I need and more. PWA decides and sticks to it! No more giving me the runaround. I can move confidently with swiftness and ease! What a joy!

So this is goodbye. No, no, don’t cry. There will be others. Of this, I am sure.

Terry