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Fix Your Writing Tics With Chris Banks From ProWriting Aid
What is your writer's tic and how can you fix it with Pro Writing Aid? Why are commas such an issue for writers? (and my own personal nemesis!)
How can AI tools enhance our creativity and usher in a new abundant future for writers? I discuss all this and more with Chris Banks from Pro Writing Aid.
Chris Banks is the CEO and founder of ProWritingAid, which has over 1.5 million users worldwide.
I use ProWritingAid for all my books at various stages of the editing process and I'm a very happy affiliate! You can get 25% off the premium edition using my link: www.TheCreativePenn.com/prowritingaid
You can also check out my tutorial: How To Use ProWritingAid To Improve Your Writing And Self-Edit Your Book
You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and full transcript below.
Show Notes
* How ProWriting Aid evolved from Chris's desire to improve his own writing
* Passive voice, commas, -ing words, and other common writing tics
* Integration with Scrivener and checking your writing across large documents
* The different types of reports ProWriting Aid generates to support your writing
* How AI is used at ProWriting Aid
* How the demand for writers may increase because of AI, and help enhance our creativity
You can find Chris Banks at ProWritingAid.com and on Twitter @ProWritingAid
Transcript of Interview with Chris Banks
Joanna: Chris Banks is the CEO and founder of ProWritingAid, which has over 1.5 million users worldwide. Welcome, Chris.
Chris: Hi, Joanna. It's nice to be here.
Joanna: I'm excited to talk to you today.
Tell us a bit more about you and your background in writing, because your bio mentions books, but no details. I'm fascinated!
Chris: It's because the books I've written are literally the most boring books you could ever imagine! They're only published in banking, so they're hard to get a hold of as well.
I left University after I studied psychology, and went into management consultancy, and then research. Obviously, that was a lot of writing. Writing business processes, and then research pieces. I was very lucky at that point to have people who spent a lot of time mentoring me in my writing, and showing me how to write business writing well.
I actually wasn't a good writer. I'd never had any guidance with my writing. It was definitely a shock when I arrived in the business world and had to write, to explain things to people rather than at university where you're trying to impress your tutors, because they already know the information you're presenting.
Whereas in the real world, you have to explain things to people, so you have to simplify them and give them easier ways to understand things.
Joanna: That's fascinating. I also went into management consultancy. I was at Accenture.
Chris: I was at a company called CHP Consulting that was set up by ex-Accenture people.
Joanna: Oh, there you go. I feel like many consultants end up in the writing world.
Chris: It is so heavy in writing right? I think writing is a good way of clarifying your thoughts. And I think when you do a lot of thinking for a living,