Can AI Fix Your Writing? Testing ProWritingAid’s AI Features!

About this video

Dale Roberts walks through editing his upcoming book Email Marketing for Authors with ProWritingAid (the video’s sponsor) before sending it to a human editor. After letting the draft sit and doing a quick Microsoft Editor spelling pass, he sets ProWritingAid to general non-fiction and works through its real-time report, which he says flagged over 700 suggestions in his 27,000-word manuscript. He uses the Rephrase tool to fix his habitual passive sentences, choosing from multiple suggested rewrites or copying parts of them. The Goals tab gives a big-picture check on grammar, sentence-length variety, glue index, pacing, readability, passive voice, and dialogue tags; he treats some dialogue flags as false positives in a non-fiction book and deliberately makes only light glue-index fixes before his editor weighs in. He then demos Sparks, a broader AI tool that can rewrite for readability or fluency, expand, summarize, continue writing, or change tense/person, contrasting it with sentence-level Rephrase. He gives the plan limits as stated in the video: free gets 10 rephrases and 3 sparks per day, Premium unlimited rephrases and 5 sparks per day, and Premium Pro unlimited rephrases and 50 sparks per day. Finally he praises the credit-based Manuscript Analysis report, which ran in under 3 minutes inside Microsoft Word and gave traffic-light-rated, section-by-section feedback (including narrative themes and plot/structure) that prompted further edits. He says the full pass took him seven hours but probably saved his editor ten, and he outlines his new workflow: draft, spelling pass, ProWritingAid real-time/Goals/Rephrase, text-to-speech read-through, manuscript analysis, then the human editor.

Key takeaways

• Run a tool like ProWritingAid after a quick spelling pass and before a human editor to catch surface issues yourself and cut paid editing time.
• Use Rephrase for sentence-level fixes such as passive voice, picking from multiple rewrites rather than accepting one blindly.
• Use Sparks for bigger-picture work — readability, fluency, expanding, summarizing, or continuing a stuck section — rather than single-sentence cleanup.
• Check the Goals report for overall writing health (glue index, pacing, readability, passive voice), but ignore clear false positives and avoid over-rewriting before editorial feedback.
• Manuscript Analysis gives fast, traffic-light-rated section feedback even for non-fiction, but it costs credits on any plan and does not replace a human editor.

Episode details: published July 28, 2025 · 16:18 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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