Two very different items to help us write mo' better prose today: Via Ripley Patton on Google+, Pro Writing Aid. It offers a free web service to scan chunks of prose for editing infractions. I was skeptical, but it caught some items for legitimate concern in the test piece I gave it. And it had me at homonyms - all that analysis does is scan for known homonyms, but by calling them out in red, you can easily see if you've got they're or their in there. I haven't investigated their fancy dictionaries or the community on the site, but the editing tool looks like a great addition to the arsenal. Note the word arsenal. As I commented to Ripley, just as the prudent mariner does not rely on one navigation source alone, neither does the prudent writer rely on one editor (human or machine). #sailortalk Now if I could just find a program that scans for typos that turn into real words. I can't seem to stop typing form when I mean from.