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Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
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Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
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Re: Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
#2Awesome! I think it would be great if editors could help users to not only format their contents, but also to write better.
Another idea in sort of similar direction is doing automated link suggestions: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/automated-linking/
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#3I like this app. However, most of my work Latex based. If you had something like this for Sublime Text, I would buy it.
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#4The source of this would be useful to integrate such features in other apps (like editors). An API might do as well at least for online tools like blogs. As a standalone site it's too much hassle to integrate it into your daily workflow I think.
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#5You know what's fun? Pasting in text from Ernest Hemingway and seeing what he did wrong.
But seriously, this is a nice, simple way to point out some general rules of thumb for improving writing, although I would love for it to be less proscriptive. Not every long sentence is a bad sentence, not every passive-voice sentence is a bad sentence, and not every adverb is a bad adverb.
Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in me can't help but notice that an app that's intended to help you improve your writing tells you to "Aim for 2 or less" adverbs, rather than "Aim for 2 or fewer."
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#6When I edit, your app should give me a unique url that is chained to the original. I can't send someone a link to what I have edited. How did I do?
Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear.
Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors. If you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is dense and complicated. Your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic. Try editing that sentence to remove the red.
Adverbs show in helpful blue. Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead.
You can use a shorter word in place of a purple one. Mouse over it for hints.
Phrases marked in green show a passive voice.
Paste in something you're working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button to compose something new.
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#7For presenting utilize as a wasteful term, I want to tearfully hug everyone involved in this.
Please kill 'utilize.' We should reach out to stakeholders and incentivize the sunsetting of the leveraging of the word 'utilize' from all slide decks.
Slide decks - the (not) new version of the tri-fold foam presentation board. It's the clear binder of our age.
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#8The source of this would be useful to integrate such features in other apps (like editors). An API might do as well at least for online tools like blogs. As a standalone site it's too much hassle to integrate it into your daily workflow I think.
Making this an API that WordPress, Draft, Ghost, and other writing platforms could pull in would be awesome. Maybe you could add plugin support or something for people that want it integrated into their blog/cms?
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#9Love this!
Re: Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
#10You know what's fun? Pasting in text from Ernest Hemingway and seeing what he did wrong. But seriously, this is a nice, simple way to point out some general rules of thumb for improving writing, although I would love for it to be less proscriptive. Not every long sentence is a bad sentence, not every passive-voice sentence is a bad sentence, and not every adverb is a bad adverb. Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in…
I agree with your second paragraph, although this is following Hemingway's specific rules, so it's good to be strong with them. And of course, you have to know the rules before you can break them.
Aside from Hemingway, it's fun to paste in other classic literature and see what the tool makes of it. It hated Lolita.