What is Sparks?
Sparks is a ProWritingAid feature that helps you make instant edits to your writing.
Whether you’re fine-tuning a paragraph or polishing a scene, Sparks provides actionable suggestions to help your writing flow.
How do I use Sparks?
Highlight at least one sentence of your text and the “Sparks” button will appear. We have highlighted this button in red in the image below.
You can then select from the Sparks Edit options.
What types of suggestions can I get with Sparks?
Sparks provides rewriting suggestions under the Edit category:
- Edit: This category helps you edit your writing to improve clarity, fluency, or structure.
- Readability: Shows you ways to improve the clarity and readability of your writing.
- Fluency: Makes your writing more fluent.
- Transitions: Suggests edits to improve the structure and use of transitional phrases.
- Sensory: Adds sensory details to make your descriptions more engaging.
- Make 1st person: Adapts your writing to be in the 1st person.
- Make 3rd person: Adapts your writing to be in the 3rd person.
- Past tense: Sets your writing in the past tense.
- Present tense: Sets your writing in the present tense.
What is the difference between Sparks and Rephrase?
Both our Rephrase and Sparks features offer on-demand suggestions for writers.
Rephrase is ideal for reworking individual sentences.
Sparks gives you instant editing examples for individual sentences, paragraphs, or multiple sentences. It can be used on up to 2,500 characters at a time.
Read more about the differences between Sparks and Rephrase
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