What type of Sparks should I use?
The Sparks option you should use depends on what you want to do with your writing. If you want to get editing examples, use Sparks Edit. If you want creative ideas to push your story forward, use Sparks Inspire.
Sparks Edit
This category helps you edit your writing to improve clarity, fluency, or structure. You can choose from the following options under the Sparks Edit category:
- 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
- Summarize: provides a short summary of the text you have selected
- Expand from notes: suggests a longer and fully grammatical version of a set of notes or bullet points
- 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.
Sparks Inspire
This category gives you creative ideas and inspiration to beat writer’s block. You can choose from the following options under the Sparks Inspire category:
- What’s next?: suggests ways to move the story onward
- Action: suggests action points to add into your writing
- Dialogue: gives ideas for adding new dialogue
- Emotion detail: suggests ways to add emotive writing
- Sensory detail: suggests ways to focus on the senses in your writing
- Analogy: inspires how to make comparisons between similar descriptions or themes
- Counterargument: gives you ideas to add a contrasting opinion to your writing
- Definition: suggests definitions that further explain descriptions in your writing
- Emphasize: shows ways to emphasize a particular point you are making
- Explanation: shows how to add a more detailed explanation to your writing
- Joke: inspires you to add a joke or witty remarks
- Quote: gives you an inspirational quote.
Whether you use Sparks Edit or Sparks Inspire, you are always in total control of what you decide to add to your writing. You can choose to copy the Sparks suggestion and add it to any document, replace text in your writing, edit the suggestion further, or ignore the suggestion entirely.
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