Grammarly Is My Second Pass, Not My First Draft
Grammarly made do a final pass on writing faster once I stopped using it wrong.
If I do a task twice, it becomes a script. I treated do a final pass on writing like a chore until I found a way to make it a ten-minute job.
I reach for Grammarly for this. catches the grammar and tone slips you stop seeing in your own draft.
Then I let Grammarly do the draft, but I keep my hands on the result. Grammarly catches the grammar and tone slips you stop seeing in your own draft, and that is exactly where it earns the time back.
I finish by doing the one thing the tool cannot: judge whether this is actually good. Grammarly handles the volume; you handle the call.
The step most people rush: review the output in place instead of regenerating from scratch. The automation that paid off: Grammarly pushes rewrites you did not ask for and nudges you to upgrade, so a quick edit beats a fresh prompt almost every time.
Where it broke: pushes rewrites you did not ask for and nudges you to upgrade. Watch that before you blame the tool.
I still do the thinking. Grammarly just does the assembly, and that is the right division of labor.