Ohhh. Well done! Already sending this to a bunch of writers in my group. This would be killer as a WordPress plugin.
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#22Nicely done. It would be nice if they can licence the idea to the makers of other simple writing apps.
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#23Hemingway's writing is incredible, IMO. And the theoretical reasons he had for writing in that style are very convincing.
However it leaves one massive problem. If this is the 'one true way' or writing fiction, so to speak, then nobody else can really embrace it because they'll be dismissed as Hemingway wannabes.
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#24I'm going to love using this. I write for a living, so I write a maddening volume of output per week. While I don't absolve myself of the need to edit everything, I'm working against the law of large numbers. Some stupid errors, or bad stylistic habits, are going to slip through the net every week.
I've been jonesing for a real-time style editor for years. Autocorrect is fine and dandy (and often wrong, but that's another story). But most autocorrect systems limit themselves to spelling and grammar. Hemingway selects for readability. That's very cool and very useful.
That said, I'm probably not going to copy & paste everything I write into the Hemingway editing environment. I'd love plug-ins and APIs for Word, Google Docs, etc. If you make these, I will use them, and I will bug the living shit out of every writer I know to do the same.
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#25I tried it out on a few articles from PG and the Economist. It turns out complex sentences are common in their writing. I don't mind, or should I say that it is not minded?
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#26Love the concept.
I'd pay monthly if it did more complex analysis. But not at this stage.
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#27This is great. I struggle with correcting my use of passive voice and I wish there were suggestions. For example, how would you rephrase this? "put some headphones on to reduce the odds of being interrupted by someone."
put some headphones on to reduce (the risk of) interruptions by others.
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#28You 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…
>> Aim for 2 or fewer.
This also violates current usage conventions for handling numbers in text.[1] Figures are only meant to be used in greater numbers (a rule of thumb is anything over 30, but I think I read that in a David Foster Wallace text, fwiw) with more complex verbal / textual representations - that is, not "two".
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#29This is very cool.
I'd pay $ (5ish) for a couple of other ways to use this:
* a bookmarklet that allowed me to select text on my blog or on one of my github pages and analyze it * emacs integration * a command line tool that worked like ispell/aspell to help analyze things I've already written
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#30I found this quite useful. I could see myself using it regularly as a Chrome extension similarly to how I use grammarly lite currently.