Independent writing tools and guides, edited by a human

Nicolas David

Editor of Textoria. Guides on grammar, editing, readability, and the craft of clear prose.

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Editor, Textoria

Nicolas David edits Textoria. Every guide on the site crosses this desk before it is published, and every correction lands here first.

What the editor does

The work is mostly subtraction. A draft arrives with a useful idea and three paragraphs of throat-clearing; the job is to find the idea, test it against a real example, and cut until the example carries the point. Guides are checked line by line for claims that cannot be sourced, statistics that were never measured, and advice that sounds wise but cannot be acted on.

Tool pages get the same treatment from the other direction. Each tool is run on awkward, real documents before its page ships: an essay with inconsistent spacing, a contract exported from a PDF, a CSV with trailing tabs. Where a tool has a limit, the page says so next to the tool, not in a footnote.

How guides are produced

Textoria's guides are written and edited by people. Software assistance may be used for research leads, test cases, or a first-draft scaffold, but no article is published as software output. Every example is run, every quoted rule is checked against a source a reader can look up, and the final text carries a human editor's judgment.

The standards are public: the editorial policy describes the review process, the ban on fabricated statistics, and the rule that every tool page documents its own limits.

Corrections

When something is wrong, it gets fixed and the page is dated. Send the sentence and, if you have one, the source that contradicts it to info@textoria.online. Corrections are treated as the process working, not as an embarrassment to be quietly edited away.

Independence and funding

Textoria is free to use and supported by advertising. Advertisers do not choose topics, see drafts, or review copy, and advertising is kept visually separate from editorial content. There are no sponsored articles, paid placements, or affiliate links dressed up as recommendations. The editorial policy explains the separation in full.

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