Grammarly vs. Claude - Stop the Censorship

What is it with everyone and their sensitivity? This is getting ridiculous. I'm writing a historical novel that involves the lives of four soldiers in WWII, and I was brainstorming with Grammarly to create a scene with one of the characters; mind you, I'm writing about real people. This is a historical novel based on real life, but of course, some scenes need to be created, and sense I've never been in war, I need a little help imagining this. I had added quite a bit of information and asked Grammarly to help me create some battle scenes based on the campaigns they likely were involved in. I got an error message telling me that Grammarly could not assist me any further because some of the content "may be too sensitive."





Are you kidding me!? One of the men I'm writing about is my grandfather. Yes, war was and is ugly, but in order to tell his story and his experience and the others, it is going to get a bit sensitive.

So, I contacted support and got this response above. But guess what? If you have trouble with subscriptions like Grammarly - Claude to the rescue. I plugged in the same details about the men's lives and asked Claude to create a scene, mind I would change it up, but it gave me a starting point. Here is a piece of what I got back; now this, I can work with:

The smell hit him first—copper and corruption. In what was once a kitchen, he found them: three German soldiers, barely more than boys, their feldgrau uniforms dark with old blood. One still clutched a letter, the paper soft with age and weather. Von tucked it into his pocket without reading it. Later, he would send it through proper channels, remembering his own German heritage and the strange turns of fate that put him here, clearing houses of dead countrymen.

Of course, I don't know that my grandfather knew much about his German heritage, so I'll be changing this. It still is graphic and disturbing, but it's what our soldiers experienced, and they deserve for us to remember how they put their lives on the line for our freedoms. I will still use Grammarly for now because I paid for a one-year subscription, but if I find another tool that can do everything it does and does not sensor my content, which is HISTORICAL, then I will switch.

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