is anyone using Vale for creative writing (and has suggestions/advice on setup)?

[gacallea]

Hi all,

I love using Vale and find it very valuable for technical docs. However, I also like to use the same nvim environment for creative writing: prose and poetry. In the latter case, Vale isn't much help. Quite the opposite to be frank.

As it says on the tin: is anyone using Vale for creative writing? do you have suggestions/advice on setup and what to use for rules/packages/configuration?

Please and thank you

[ChrisChinchilla]

@gacallea I have and do, but… The main issue is the apps you can use Vale in. I tend to keep VSCode for my technical work and a mix of Obsidian, Scrivener, and Ulysses for creative writing.

Vale has an extension for Obsidian, but it doesn't work anymore, and I am trying to fix it. Scrivener used to have an extension ecosystem but doesn't anymore, and Ulysses has something similar to Vale, built with LanguageTool.

I am trying to build a Grammarly Desktop-style tool for Vale that will mean you could access it anywhere, but that is quite some work 😅

But I guess neovim does have a plugin, so your tooling isn't the question…

On the configuration side, well, I find many of the rules I use elsewhere useful, but you can tone down some of the more pedantic rules as creative writing is, well, more creative. However, there are some things such as passive voice, too many adverbs, etc, that equally apply. Also, when I do creative writing, I switch to International English, so I use a different dictionary set up, etc. We could think about building a ruleset or configuration file for more creative writing, though…

[gacallea]

Hi @ChrisChinchilla,

I appreciate your insights, and apologies about the late reply. It would be awesome if Vale implemented a creative writing skeleton to build one's configuration upon. Speaking of which, I'd be curious to take a peak at yours, if possible, to understand how you use it. Is your configurations available anywhere?

Please and thank you

[ChrisChinchilla]

@gacallea I will attempt to put something together at some point :)

[gacallea]

Thank you kindly Chris :)