The first key lesson of Pro Writing Aid was to not try to edit my whole Scrivener file at once. It works much better if I use the editing functions on each individual document within the file.
Unfortunately, it does not work as well on the top file of a nested group. The live editor will only work on lowest-level files, and that is the fastest and most convenient function. Editing top-level files seems to require that I use the individual reports and click through the issues one by one to resolve them, which takes about three times as long as using the keyboard shortcuts to skip through.
The other annoying feature is that every time my mouse or cursor passes close to a highlighted issue, it brings up the highlight, which prevents me from typing to fix it. I think if I am going to fix issues manually (required in many instances), I have to select “Ignore” first and then type manually where the highlight goes away.
But while it is slow and annoying to use, it has been teaching me a lot about my writing. The biggest lesson is that I use the word “that” too much. I also use “all of the” when it recommends “all the”. Those are issues I can try to address on my own in the future.
So far, so good. And with an extra hour to work today, since the family slept in, I got through two full chapters of edits!