Blogging is not just writing, I know. But, there’s nothing without content.
Well, in my earliest days of blogging, writing is not just so simple for me. Those were days when most of the comments I get were pointing out my mistakes. And getting more clients to my freelance business was just a myth. I know, there are a lot of bloggers who having the passion of writing, but couldn’t properly execute the content; mostly because of the poor grammar skills or lack of writing practices.
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In the last few months, I’ve come across many tools for writers, which really help in bringing out the writer side of you. As I said, it almost took me years to be what I’m today. I am surely thankful to all such tools which made me productive, corrected my poor grammar and a few others which developed the habit of writing in me.
What else can be a better topic to post for today? If you are looking to develop your writing skills; continue reading.
750Words
One of the best sites to develop the habit of writing every day. On 750Words, all you have to do is- write 750 words every day without fail. The site also offers a little challenge for the users at the very beginning of each month. You can take up the challenge and keep it going for the whole month. While signing up, it asks you to fill out a couple of fields- If I succeed, I will ________ and If I miss a day or more, I will _______. This will keep you focussed on the challenge and you can also set up email notifications, so that you won’t miss it for the day.
I recently got the result for this January’s challenge and you know, only 366 people could complete the challenge. So, are you ready for the next month’s challenge?
Ginger Software
Sometimes, even the most experienced will commit silly mistakes, unknowingly. This is quite a commonly seen thing with most of the writers and bloggers. Ginger Software is a free tool for desktops, browsers which helps you a lot in proofreading. It corrects grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes and other simple mistakes. And, if you completely frame a wrong structure of a sentence, only you can help yourself.
Grammarly
Just like Ginger Softwares, Grammarly has been another great tool which works much better than the former. In Ginger, it can correct only to an extent , whereas in Grammarly, it points out each and every mistake of your article and makes it perfect in all terms. It checks for plagiarism in the text, spelling mistakes, terminology, writing style, punctuation and what not! It also gives you an overall score for your article. If you can afford a little price to boost the quality of your articles, don’t look back.
ZenWriter
Distractions are all around you. While writing, Facebook, YouTube and few other addictions can totally take you away from work. ZenWriter creates a distraction free work area where you can’t simply open another application while writing. It also has a simple music that plays in the background along with a beautiful wallpaper.
Though, there are many other alternatives for this software, I still use NotePad to write (Don’t ask me why 
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Pomodoro App
You might already know this. Pomodoro is a technique where you are supposed to work for twenty-five continuous minutes without a break. After the session, you can take a break , come back and repeat the same. This will keep you focussed on the work without any distractions. It also comes with a twenty-five minute countdown timer, so that you are kept notified with the remaining time.
After I’ve started using this, I became more productive and this entire post is written in 25 minutes. Really!
Thesaurus
At most times, finding an alternate word becomes harder as you get. Thesaurus helps you in this case. Find synonyms/antonyms of English words, so that you can churn up your words and add a style to it, make it professional.
Weblogs
What else can teach you better? We have Brian Clark, Seth Godin, Jeff Goins and many more great writers on the web. Read their blogs. Subscribe to their list. They do send a lot of exciting stuff via emails. I’ve personally been a great fan of three of them.
Even when you have the best grammar checking tool, you should at least know the basics and formats of writing. So, start reading weblogs very often and soon, you’ll see the change in your writing. Here are some blogs which you shouldn’t miss.
How about mine?
By the way, if you know any such tools for writers, please do help our readers though comments.
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Great post Koundeenya! I’ll have to check out a lot of these tools as I haven’t heard of many of them. 750Words sounds interesting.
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Ginger software is really helpful thing. Even being a native speaker some stupid mistakes take place… God bless Ginger))) And as for 750 words a day it can be a bit exhausting. Or even too much, write without an inspiration is a complete crime, as I think…
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Hello Evan!
For me, writing isn’t always professional. Sometimes, I write because I’ve nothing to do. And, to churn up my creativity, I do write some short stories too. I do this because, I was using 750Words. I believe, great writing can be achieved when it is practiced daily.
I do admit! Writig without inspiration can sometimes be useless. But at least, it creates a habit of writing in an individual.
Thanks for sharing your views.
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Hi Koundeenya ,
Great tips Bro ,. Feeling very much inspired to give a better content in my blog posts . I Will Follow these tips to Improve my Blog
Thank You Very much for sharing the information with us 
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Hi Koundeenya,
I love this post – I’m always looking for new writing tools and there are some here I haven’t tried. I use thesaurus.com all the time and I’ve tried ZenWriter – don’t use it all the time, but I like it very much.
I’m just about to publish a post on proofreading, so I’ll link back to this for my readers so they can access your recommendations on the grammar and spellchecking tools.
I think I’d add to your list online dictionaries, encyclopedias and sites for finding quotations.
A really great article, full of goodies – thank you!
Sue
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Hey Sue Neal!
Thanks for reminding about quotations. Because, they do attract readers’ attention very quick and are very helpful to enhance the post.
Thank you for the comment.
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Jens recently wrote a post sharing some sites for writers and to be honest it was the first time I’d heard of a few of these. Here I am here at your place Koundeenya and you’re sharing some of the same ones.
I don’t need an app to keep time with what I’m doing, I use a good old kitchen timer for that. Got it set right this minute too.
Thanks for sharing these because I’m sure there are plenty of other people online that weren’t aware of them either.
Enjoy your week.
~Adrienne
Hey Koundeenya,
Thanks for this list man. Quite interesting tools. I’m on 750words.com and simply, I’m liking the idea.
I’ll be checking others later.
Hope you have a great week
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Yet another informative post Koundeenya!
Oh yes….I’ve heard of all of these tools when I used to write my writing blog for freelance writers sometime back, though personally I’ve never really tried any of them for the reason I mentioned in my previous post here. I guess we become too dependent on them and personally feel that if there is a will to write, and you love to do so, nothing can stop you but yourself.
However, I do understand the distractions that some of us have to face, and that includes me too, but for that I try other ways. I have tried 750 words long back, but not for long as I realized I was writing much more than 750 words myself within a short span of time.
Nevertheless, these tools are worth seeing, and I’ve yet to check out Ginger Software from your list. Other ones you might be interested in exploring are ByWord(Mac), Readability, OmmWriter, and Q10, to name a few. Ah…I love your list of those wonderful gems of writer’s, though I am subscribed to only a few of them but do visit their blogs regularly. I guess your learning only gets better when you do that – isn’t it?
Thanks for sharing this with us.
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Hello Harleena.
You’re my inspiration and I often wonder how you are producing content of more than thousands of words each day. You really are an amazing writer.
Well, as I’m lazy enough to postpone my things, I use 750Words. Or maybe, I should use it. But, I really found it interesting enough. After all, I am able to submit all my clients’ works on time.
Thanks for the shares
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Koundeenya,
Thanks for sharing these great tools. It’s nice to find a resource like this that has all of this information in the same place.
Writing can be difficult at times no matter how much you like it and are good at it. Tools like these can definitely help during those times by taking away the distractions and helping you be more productive with your time.
Thanks again for sharing.
I hope you have a great end to the week!
~Barry
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Hey Barry!
Though there are many awesome tools like these, people still aren’t aware of ‘em. And, that is the reason why I wrote this one. I use notepad to have a distraction free writing environment, pomodoro app and thesaurus every now and then.
Thanks for the comment.
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I have been aware of 3 until now – Zenwriter, 750 Words and Pomodromo timer and I’ve used them quite well.
Thanks for adding to that list. I certainly think Grammarly would be useful to every Indian.
Aditya
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Hi, Koundeenya,
I love 750Words! I always loved using it as a personal blogging/online diary exercise, and was a great place to unload a lot of stuff in my mind –including writing ideas– without the pressure of making it decent and presentable for a public blog.
Grammarly and Zen Writer are also two apps that I have heard of, but haven’t used. I actually tend to write better if I can keep Chrome open, mainly because I tend to do a lot of research as I’m writing, and I always have a tab open for Dictionary.com when I need help with that synonym or just to double-check an obscure word.
Thank you for this list! There’s definitely a few here I hadn’t heard of before.
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Hi Koundeenya,
Well to be honest all the mentioned tools are new to me expect the grammerly. Iam trying to improve my writing skills by using the mentioned tools.
thanks
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