The Hemingway Editor

[D.J. Wilde]

I haven't seen this on here, but I would like to suggest it to everyone. It can't take a lot of your writing at once, but if you put in a few paragraphs (up to 5000 words at a time), it can really show you things about your writing. It's a free app, check it out.

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

[Christina]

Hi DJ. I moved this to author help. Per the pinned post that Ann put up yesterday, the Author Resource folder will just be items that we have established as SIA approved resources. We will take a look at this, but in the future, if you have a resource, go ahead and PM one of us or post here in author help and note that you think it a good resource. Thanks!

[D.J. Wilde]

Ah. Okay. Well, still getting a feel for the arrangements here, lol.

[Christina]

And we're moving all the furniture in the dark! ;)
Don't worry, eventually it will all make sense.

[Denae]

Cool! I put in a chunk of my first chapter and got grade 5 and only one very difficult setence. It thought "grizzly" was an adverb, though.

[Riley, Viking Extraordinaire]

#BeExcellentToEachOther

[D.J. Wilde]

Denae wrote: "Cool! I put in a chunk of my first chapter and got grade 5 and only one very difficult setence. It thought "grizzly" was an adverb, though."

I have found it pretty useful and it thinks anything with an ly is an adverb so you have to take it with a grain of salt in a way. But on everything else, it's been very helpful to me.

[Christina]

Hi DJ! Couple of the mods checked this out, so we got you back in the resources folder. :)

[D.J. Wilde]

Well that's cool! I'm happy either way of course ;)

[Dan]

I know I'm late to the party, but this is actually a really cool app. It's excellent in all the ways my own editing needs work, and decent in my strength areas. It's incredibly helpful. Well worth $20.

[Anna]

I've been using Autocrit and I'm a bit of a creature of habit, but it's getting expensive.

How does this Hemingway thingy work? Does it sit there until I upload something onto it? I don't want it editing my emails or other stuff that I write.

Does it tell me if I repeat words too frequently? (That's my biggest failing.)

Sorry to be a nuisance!

[Christina]

Anna, check this folder because one of our members created a word frequency tool you might appreciate.

[Anna]

Christina - Aha! Really? How clever. I discipline myself to check for certain words by 'Find' but it's those pesky ones that I use and reuse and think I'll use again - all in the same para!

That's interesting, Temple, but does anybody out there ever worry about losing some words through non-use?

[Dan]

Anna Faversham wrote: "I've been using Autocrit and I'm a bit of a creature of habit, but it's getting expensive.

How does this Hemingway thingy work? Does it sit there until I upload something onto it? I don't want it ..."

The Hemingway editor won't do anything unless you intentionally put text into it. You can either copy/paste or write directly into it (you can do this either with a free online version, or by buying the app for $20).

The text you enter is being checked the whole time you're writing (or all at once if you copy/past), and it assigns you a readability grade, which it determines by going over the following things:

1.) Reading time.
2.) Letters.
3.) Characters.
4.) Words.
5.) Sentences.
6.) Paragraphs.
7.) Adverb usage.
8.) Passive voice usage.
9.) Complex phrases.
10.) Hard to read sentences.
11.) Very hard to read sentences.

For some of those things (such as the adverbs and passive voice), it will offer suggestions of how to fix what you have. For example, if you use a qualifier like 'maybe', it might say "Qualifier: Be bold. Don't hedge.". Then it's all just a matter of you using your better judgement in deciding what you need to do.

[Grace]

I use the Hemingway editor all the time and I really like it. It's useful, easy to use, and free! If you use the online version anyway. I would recommend it to any writer.

[Denae]

An app that does more than Hemingway (for a bit higher price) is prowritingaid. It flags all the same things but also looks for overused words, consistency, variety of sentence/paragraph length, and more. If you like what Hemingway does, check out prowritingaid, too.

[Mary Ellen]

Prowriting aid is far more in depth and much more useful.

[Robert]

For the price Prowriting aid is a great product. It is part of the process.

[Jill]

I use prowriting as well, along with gammarly. The both catch things the other miss.

[Dwayne, Head of Lettuce]

Benard wrote: "i get what ever a want. "

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