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Probably getting buried but Hemmingway Editor. Highlights your writing in the areas you use passive voice, overly wordy etc. Huge help for learning/improving your technical writing!

Edit: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Not a copywriting rockstar myself, but I'm using an app that helps you to write more concise sentences.

It's free, so just copy your text in there and you are good to go http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Here are some suggestions:

• Leave it alone for a while in order to help you see it with fresh eyes.

• Read it out loud so that you have a better sense of how the sentences flow. Certainly edit anything that makes you stumble as you read it aloud. This should also help you hear the rhythm of your work: watch out for all your sentences being of similar length, for example.

• Catch typos, doubled-up words, etc., by reading each line backwards.

• Use software or online tools like this one to highlight excessive use of adverbs, convoluted sentences, passive voice, etc. Obviously don't change anything blindly just because some software told you to, but it can be a useful way to get a different perspective on your text.

• Get feedback on it from trusted readers. Ask them to highlight any sections where the meaning was unclear or the sentences didn't flow well.

• Expect the length to shrink, on average, as you successively omit needless words.

I use the Hemingway App to de-complexify my academic writing. My work is in the top 1% of my cohort.

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Orwell also has some great things to say on the subject. His six rules are :

• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
• Never use a long word where a short one will do
• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
• Never use the passive where you can use the active.
• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

The only downside is now when I'm reading other people's academic papers I have to work harder to stop thinking "you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded"

Great question. I’d love to hear what other people have done.

For me, reading a lot has helped grow my writing skills. I also make a conscious effort to improve.

There’s an app that has helped me rework a lot of my messaging:

http://www.hemingwayapp.com

The web app is free and easy to use. At the very least, you can use it as a copy editor.

hemingwayapp.com

"Hemingway App 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 so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic."

For a writer, there isn't a more useful website I know than hemingwayapp. Just copy your text in. It identifies too-complicated sentences, use of justifiers and adverbs, passive voice, actual spelling/grammar errors, and even points out when you used a phrase with a simpler alternative.

Like I know this is a joke, but http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ actually really helped me with writing personal statements. It calls you on the flowery bullshit that we love to fill pages with and encourages you to write with active voice. I highly recommend it to anyone stuck in a rut.

There is a site called hemingwayapp that you can upload your writing to have it find simpler synonyms, highlight confusingly long sentences, and remove unnecessary adverbs.

I ran this sentence through it and it told me to remove "confusingly" and even after that it was still "very hard to read."

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Heh...I can sympathize, I've had that same feeling many times. A lot of this stuff was drilled into my head by MY editors after repeated mistakes.

In the spirit of being helpful, though, here's something you can try: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

I haven't used it a ton myself, but it's pretty cool. Basically, you paste your text in and it will highlight bits that are overly complex, needlessly large words, etc. it's not perfect and it's no replacement for a real editor, but it can really help you simplify and clarify your writing so that more people can easily understand it

All great advice!

I'd add on to the resume advice to proofread for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. If you aren't the best with these, ask a family member or friend to look it over who can help. It's good to have someone read it anyways because you might write something that doesn't make sense to a reader and they can catch that.

I like using the Hemingway App to see how I can improve the readability and grammar of writing.

Having a well-written, easy to read, and proofread resume goes a long way.

Bro, you gotta grammar check your writing, I'm having a real hard time following what you're saying. Use the Hemmingway App if you have to.

Your main argument is: "Politically motivated pressure" is completely different from "political motive." Therefore, politically motivated people might have changed the outcome of the investigation.

That's a level of conspiracy theory I'm not willing to go.

For notetaking and planning, I wrote my own program because I couldn't find anything that really fit what I needed. My program uses a folder structure, so I can do just what you said, with folders for each chapter, scene, etc. I also use it to keep general notes on my world and characters.

It's free and open source on GitHub, if you want to try it. Here's the link.

As for grammar, I personally just have someone else read over my work. If you want a computer program, Grammarly and Hemingway seem to be the most common. I have little personal experience with either, though.

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

>Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

>The app highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.

>You can utilize a shorter word in place of a purple one. Mouse over it for hints.

>Adverbs are helpfully shown in blue. Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead.

>Phrases in green have been marked to show passive voice.

>You can format your text with the toolbar.

>Paste in something you're working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button to compose something new.

Use Hemingway App http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ to help you judge how easy your writing is to read. It will point out long sentences, simpler ways of writing the same thing, incorrect grammar and things like that.

I don't think the word essay means what you think it means, it's not even 300 words. And, according to http://www.hemingwayapp.com/, eminently readable, sitting at a nice grade 9 overall.

Even if the slang is costing me a bit, but you should really read up on things before decrying them as basic and telling others they are wrong.

Remaining ignorant is your right.

Being unchallenged when you show it, is not.

Curious what people think of this sort of tool: Work In Social Impact? This New Tool Will Make Your Writing More Persuasive:

> A new tool called Viooly is designed to analyze whatever you write with algorithms, and offer clear suggestions on how to edit for readability, warmth, and power. The startup compares itself to spell check–but instead of looking for spelling mistakes, it looks for flaws in persuasiveness.

> After you enter text–anything from a tweet to a full-length report–the software gives scores on reading ease (the average American reads at an 8th-grade level), verb tense (people connect more with verbs in the present tense), and concreteness (“wheat” is more relatable than “agriculture”).

> The tool analyzes seven other factors, highlights any problems it finds, and adjusts the score after you edit.

I don't mind the Hemingway editor which focuses on readability, but this seems to go further. e.g. it talks of detecting differences between talking about Syria and telling stories of Syrian individuals.

Do you think a tool of this variety is likely to improve communication, or merely to make communications even more propagandistic / polarized than they already are? (Although this might have the advantage of evening out things between individuals and groups able to afford more editors / speechwriters somewhat.)

I'll leave the Stoic insight to all the others, since I'm sure there are lots of other aspiring sages on /r/Stoicism. But I'm a writer, so I'll critique the straight-up writing.

I guess first I should ask, what translation of Marcus are you reading? Because this sounds like it was inspired by one of the not-good "Verily forsooth" versions. I mean, it's abundantly obvious that you spent some time with a thesaurus for this one. (That, or you're a biologist.) There's really no need for such a pretentious vocabulary; I'm sure you could find some simpler words. The sentence structure also seems like it's trying to sound wise. Maybe I'm just a jaded and hypercritical old man, but that one other famous reddit self-quote sprang to mind as I read this. I highly recommend the Hemingway Text Editor for self-editing of future projects.

On that note, I really do love the symbolism and the thought behind this piece. It's a new take on something that I already like to think about, and I'll be meditating on it later. Thank you for sharing, /u/AlbinoNeutrino! :)

How about the Hemingway App? (It's browser based.) http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

From the website: 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 so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.

Adverbs are helpfully shown in blue. Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead.

You can utilize a shorter word in place of a purple one. Mouse over it for hints.

Phrases in green have been marked to show passive voice.

Paste in something you're working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button to compose something new.

Yikes, glad you managed to squeeze it into the word limit! I understand why they set word limits, but sometimes it's just brutal and you feel like you have to squeeze all of the life out of your writing and all of the details out of the project to make it fit.

If I've got my final piece and it's more than 100 words over limit, I know I've got to cut content, once its under 100 I start nitpicking for phrasing, word choice, and things like splitting sentences into two so I can eliminate connector words. I usually put the paragraph or letter into http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ and remove all adverbs, rephrase passive voice sentences into shorter active voice sentences, and replace complex words with shorter, less descriptive words (when there's a character limit, if it's a word limit then I'll keep it interesting). I usually write funding applications in first person (I know not everyone does), so replacing the three-word org name with we/our also helps.

I read the first four or five pages of the first chapter, and found it difficult to keep going.

For me, the omniscient narrator that feels like he's addressing me is odd. Not good-odd or bad-odd; I'm still trying to figure out how to qualify it. As something I'm not used to, the style frequently took me out of the story. I may not be the type of audience you're going for, so this may not matter.

The use of parenthesis and single quotes also felt odd as a style choice, but could easily be something that's outside of my norm but within the norm for others. You occasionally switched to double quotes, and I'd recommend sticking with one or the other for consistency.

The first chapter started off with what felt like a history lesson. There are a lot of facts told of things, but I don't feel any connection to character or story that anchors such facts in my mind. Partly due to the info dumping, and partly due to the long paragraph length, I found myself regularly starting to skim and had to keep going back.

Several pages in, I don't have an idea for what the plot is, and nothing in particular hooked my curiosity to read more.

Here's a website I recommend: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/. Don't take everything it says as gospel, but it provides an interesting perspective on the complexity of writing. I put several of your paragraphs into that site and it agreed with a feeling of complexity that may have been part of my difficulty in focusing on your writing.

Don't necessarily edit your work to make that site happy. In putting my own writing there, I found things that I disagreed with and kept as is. It's just an interesting perspective to consider.

Okay, I guess I'll start. I just launched a new fanfic story as of today, and I've had to read now dozens of pieces, some a lot better than others. My first and biggest tip: Edit your work! I've come across a lot of what could be otherwise decent fanfics but they are unedited and it really can distract from the story. Here is the process that I follow.

• Write the outline/first draft: I like to start with an outline for what's going to happen in my story. I divide them by mini-arcs or subplots, and then decide where to draw the chapter lines after. I write the chapter next, keeping formatting inline with the requirements for where I post them on FF.net.

• Sleep on it: Writing can be very exciting. It's fun to see ideas come to life. After I write the first draft, I put it down for at least overnight. If I'm really on a roll, I'll start the next chapter while the previous one rests.

• Revise the draft: The next day, I go back to the story and re-read it, changing anything really obvious. I also go back and change bits that don't make sense, are incorrect or otherwise don't work. I then let it hang for a second night.

• Edit for final draft: I take my piece and run it through various utilities such as spell and grammar check a thesaurus and The Hemingway Editor (just copy/paste and edit in the original document. A tip is to NOT edit in the web page or you will lose your formatting.) I try to get my scoring as high as possible while keeping my flow going. You won't be able to make it perfect by Hemingway's standards, but it helps a lot.

• Publish!: Go ahead and post your work to the appropriate locations and let it loose on the world.

I also suggest having a good synopsis. I like to make a one sentence and one paragraph version for short stories.

I hope these tips help give some insight to the process I use, but they are not all-conclusive or rules, just suggestions. Keep writing my friends!

This shouldn't be a JPEG but a feature in Hemingway.

Anyway here's a table:

Ah, right. Changed it to the Drake Equation and fixed the caps thing (I can never remember, and I tend to default treat the section after a semicolon as a new sentence).

I totally agree I use too many commas, but damn, when I try and edit it down in Hemmingway, I feel like I'm pulling my own teeth in doing so.

Also consider adding in some images and graphic design to the doc, just to break up the text. For example, when you mention your app, include a picture!

I do still think you should try to shorten your text a little. You're using a lot of words but I think you could express the same ideas in shorter phrases. (This is something I struggle with too!) One thing that helps me is using a text editor like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/. It identifies where you're using long sentences, adverbs, and big words and suggests alternatives. Might help you cut down on your word count!

This is an amazing initiative and I wish you all the luck!

> Side note: IF YOU DON'T HAVE MICROSOFT WORD, AT LEAST USE OPEN OFFICE OR GOOGLE DOCS!

Hemingway is an excellent editor that includes structure help, as well as spellcheck.

You know you should go into writing? My only critique would be to make your writing more easily accessible and coherent. Instead of logically sound. http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ is a good resource for this I copy pasted this comment into the app and it gave you a grade 13 and said to aim for grade 9. I highly enjoy your long comments whenever you make the effort, but something about the way you write makes it very hard to decipher. I would work on being more clear if I were you.

But no you definitely can write a philosophy book with your infinite amounts of knowledge on personal growth! It would benefit many than just a few on reddit who bother to read the comments.

I tend to spend my life in the future. Always obsessing, always trying to play God. But you are so right. I gotta feel alive in every moment. I look forward to sleeping a lot because it is an escape from the raw pain of being alive. I escape in any way I can. Being alive for me is painful and uncertain. But if only I let go like you said. And let life surprise me. It would be so much better!

I stumbled upon this gem of a tool on /r/writing.

I was searching to see if there was anything that could help me count adverbs, sentences in passive voice, sentence length, et cetera and did not know something like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ existed. My god. I'm crying holy tears at this.

Edit: The thread I'm referring to is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/6frhe1/how_to_color_your_text_based_on_sentence_length/

Here's the link... I tried changing the blue "adverb" and green "passive voice" to achieve the same meaning as they are after (ie didn't just delete "helpfully"), and it keeps disliking my choices! I am kinda shocked, I always assumed I was naturally decent at this! Suggestions?!

Hello!

I did a bunch of commenting on the document, so I'll just touch on my general feeling here.

First and foremost, I think this has good potential. Your writing is pretty solid as a whole and you do quite well with jumping straight into the scene while avoiding info dumps. The prose flowed pretty well. I didn't have the urge to stop at any point, so I suppose that says quite a bit.

That said, there are a couple things you could improve on - always the case, isn't it?

You use way too many adverbs... I think I counted almost 35 in less than 2000 words. While I don't find adverbs to be the complete devil like some do, I still think that's excessive. Any time you use an adverb, look at what you just wrote. Was it necessary? Was there absolutely no better way to say it with a stronger verb? Sometimes there isn't (and I marked an example on the doc), but usually you can replace it with something better.

You have a bit of passive voice, but not so much that it's a problem. Again, this has its place when used sparingly, but I like to cut down on it as much as possible. If you have trouble seeing it, this website is a great tool for finding all the occurrences for you.

Lastly, watch out for those dialogue markers. It wasn't bad, but enough that I noticed. Nine times out of ten you should probably be using 'said'.

Anyway, as I said, I think you have some good potential here. There's nothing glaring wrong in your writing that can't be easily fixed, so keep at it and you'll be writing great stuff before you know it.

I recently had to write college application also. I used the Hemingway web app This helped me to see sentences that were too difficult to read, and restructure them in a way that was easier to read.

Overall I like it! What's the question or topic that you're writing about? I'm guessing it has something to do with your background or growing up?

The UI is minimal, but it's a PITA to use. Might as well just use notepad.

I feel like this is the perfect example of the different types of minimalism at play. I personally try to be minimalistic in reliance. Downloading this just makes me have one more piece of software to remember when I switch computers, or just for general use.

Mac/OSX is great for this type of minimalism, since everything is built in (Mail, Safari, Messages, iTunes, textedit, etc.).

My biggest problem with this software is that it's lack of practical use. It's a text editor that's bad at editing text. It's clumsy, hogs the screen, and has a crummy selection (uncustomizable) of backgrounds and songs. Meh. I'll just stick with notepad/textedit, my own wallpaper of choice, and put on some music in iTunes. Same exact thing, except I get a ton more features if I need them, and it doesn't hog up my entire screen if I don't want it to.

IMO, if you want a cool minimalistic editor, hemingway is a better choice. The UI is just as minimalistic, but it's a web app (no download), it highlights and corrects your writing (so it's cleaner prose), etc.

I'm sure some people will like this, and that's cool. But IMO, there's much better tools that are more minimalistic in a variety of ways that still allow flexibility if want/needed.

If that's all you need, find some beta readers. That's basically what they're there for. I use them for every release - they get a free book to read, I get feedback. Everybody wins.

Since they aren't actually editing, (altering/changing/marking text) it doesn't qualify as an "edit". It's just a readthrough.

Alternatively, the Hemingway app can help you nip a lot of those more functional oopsies.

I think it's pretty good. You got some info there, it reads ok and provides a decent overview of the past two years. What I think could be improved:

1. Be careful not to use too many long sentences. Long sentences are more difficult to digest compared to short ones. The Hemingway Editor can highlight these for you. Sometimes it's too harsh, but it can be helpful.
2. It's a good overview of what happened, but there's not much more besides that. Try adding your own thoughts, lesser known facts or interesting statistics. This added value will make your articles stand apart and give you an edge over other writers.

These are just ideas I've learnt from copywriters but I'm not one myself so take it with a grain of salt.

What I would do if I were you is to go to The Athletic (you can get some trials for free), download a lot of articles and analyze them. Some of my copywriting friends even go as far as they rewrite articles of their favourite authors word for word. It helps them understand how they were put together and use these ideas in their own work.

Grammarly and Hemingway are two useful utilities. Hemingway is good because you can type a sentence you were planning to write, and then the app will tell you what could be improved. Grammarly offers suggestions to write with greater grammatical cohesion.

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

https://www.grammarly.com/

Neither of them will tell you how to use better grammar in the abstract, but hands-on practice with them could help you.

Is a preference for using less word an American thing? I always see a lot of advice about not using passive voice, using less adverbs, using short sentences and simple words (all things the Hemingway editor tries to correct) but it often ends up feeling very dry to me compared to some good authors I read (in French, so the comparaison is not that great, or Pratchett but I don't know if it's a good "standard" author).

This sounds good. I can't advise too much on the technical aspects of the query, but love the plot and vibe.

Run this through Hemingway and cut down some of the sentences, as there's a few long ones that could be truncated (especially that second one).

I guess another point is, there's not much about Sloan as a character. Yeah, he's looking to uncover the main crime. But what's his personal story?

What does he want and what's at stake for him personally?

Is The Golem his antagonist?

Where's the conflict?

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>is seeking to reclaim the violin ~~he had~~ stolen from him ~~and lost~~ during the war.

This sentence could be less ambiguous as well. I've added a suggestion.

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Edit: formatting and extra details added

Trick with oneshots is to keep it a single conflict. Just one. No subplots.

The other thing is no one sees your first draft, so you can overshoot your word limit and parse it down during revisions. (Hemingway Editor can be helpful for that.)

I began with shorter stuff and tend to lose steam writing longer stories.

I think this might be helpful for your run-on sentence problem.

Other than that... grammar and writing in general are not easily trained with exercise because, as you said, it's not like math or spelling where there are objectively right ways to do it. There's some rules, yes, but they are a framework that leaves a lot of room for ambiguity. A sentence can be grammatically flawless but still be perceived as clunky and poorly written.

If you want to be a good writer, you need to build up an "intuition" for what good writing even is. So my recommendation is: read. Read a lot.

That is such a rough spot to be in. I would definitely recommend she read it aloud, perhaps it could be something you do together? She reads a chapter, you read a chapter? I would also recommend Hemingway Editor as a way to get feedback that isn't from someone she is close to.

I like to use the Hemingway Editor, http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Basically, it encourages you to cut out any crap. More often than not, you create a better and more useful piece of content. It's all about improving the readability of the article.

I highly recommend the Hemingway Editor. The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors in writing in an easy to digest format. I paste important emails or email copy to it all the time.

No darling should remain unmurdered. Good advice.

E: Shameless plug for the Hemingway App! While no robot can ever tell you how exactly to write, it helps a lot in terms of cutting down long sentences, identifying adverbs and killing passive voice. I have an awful tendency to waffle on, and Hemingway has helped me be less of a rambler in my writing.

We get premium Grammarly accounts from Uni and I've been using it for four years now. Here's what I have learnt:

1. Don't rely on it too much. It can leave out genuine mistakes or find errors in a grammatically correct and sensible sentence. Grammarly, like similar services, works on NLP. So it depends on the algorithm and the training set. We shouldn't expect it to be perfect anyway. The numbers can mean anything since we don't have a reference scale. So, I just it let it give me advice; if I like it, I take it.
2. It's extension should not be installed; or anything that is basically a key mapper. (I personally don't use any add-on other than AdBlock Plus, that too because it's open source and generally considered safe.)
3. Grammarly's plagiarism check is fine at best. I've found turnitin to be far better.
4. Grammarly is not meant for academic writing.
5. Many people who want to use Grammarly would find the Hemmingway app of far better utility. It's completely free.

new therapist? takes some time for them to get your story and work out your quirks, the longer you go the more they "get" you and start speaking your shorthand.

actually, things are compounded for me due to...lots of things, I'll say that speaking to the point has been a challenge but one thing that has shifted my thinking is writing and in trying to hone my craft I've been using the hemingway app, in turn a secondary effect is that I'm starting to think about cutting to the point. we both know I have a lot in my brain and I can go on and that I think about things form 900 million angles, but now I'm finding it easier to just stick something on the wall and seeing how it feels.

failure in therapy is lying or not being vulnerable I would argue

I have no experience with any pro writing help software, so this is my $.01...

I just finished editing my first short and I found a combination of the free grammarly plus running the piece through the Hemingway APP did a decent job of guiding the process.

For writing, I primarily use Scrivener and Google Documents.I adore Scrivener for many, many reason. To help combat Google Docs slowing to a crawl for larger documents, I break up my stories into chapters whenever possible. Sometimes, I'll use Google Keep if I'm on my phone and want to jot down a quick note or idea to myself. Sometimes, I also write fiction in Visual Studio Code, but that's either because I have built-in shortcuts and extensions for HTML (it makes posting to Ao3 easier) or I'm supposed to be coding something and got distracted, haha. I'll use Microsoft Word when I need to double-check I've formatted everything if it needs to be sent off in its final form as a Word Document. Also, while it's not technically a text editor or word processor, I'll use Dragon Naturally Speaking to write.

For editing, I'll use the standard spell-check built into programs. I find a TTS program, Balabolka, very useful when I need to edit and revise longer passages. I love <a href="http://www.hemingwayapp.com"&gt;Hemingway&lt;/a> as a way to help me confront my long, long sentences. Sometimes, I'll use <a href="https://www.slickwrite.com/"&gt;Slick Write</a> though I'm a bit wary of it.

I really like using this site for ambient noise. It's really awesome because it's not just the usual rain and cafe noises. As a horror writer, I need something creepier, and it can provide that and any other background noise I like.

I also really like Hemingway Editor.

And also A Softer World, which is not really a program, but I find it to be an endless inspiration.

Grammarly is amazing for checking your grammar on the fly. I’m using it right now on my iPhone! You can get Grammarly as a Chrome extension or PC app, too.

If you’d like help whilst you’re, say, writing a book, HemingwayApp is a great word processor that gives you grammar tips and has no distracting functions such as word colouring or font choices (you could copy and paste into Microsoft Word afterwards if you’d like those functions back).

If you’d just like to sit down and study I highly recommend this website. It has some college and university level grammar tips on there if I remember correctly.

Good luck!

Software is no substitute for mastery of English usage and grammar, or the services of a professional possessed of such mastery. However, the Hemingway App might help you catch and fix the most obvious issues.

There are two tool I found that immediately improved my writing. Maybe they’ll do the same for you.

The first is Hemingway App. It analyses your writing for active voice and succinctness, lower grade is better. http://www.hemingwayapp.com

The second is Dan Harmon’s analysis of story structure. It lays out what humans expect from a price of writing before they identify it as a story. aka “flow”. http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit

Good luck and keep writing

Check formatting, hard to read such a large paragraph. Also, towards the end it repeats (copy and paste malfunction?). I find the Hemingway way app extremely useful for writing:

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

OK, I just read this entry. It was kind of difficult to read as it seemed you were trying to hard to make it interesting. The words and phrases that you use seem over blown and flower to the point that I would stop and reread parts a couple times just because they sound so unnatural. Perhaps English is your second language, or you wrote it in your native language and used Google translate and when it did it came out sounding clunky. My recommendation would be to keep things simple and to the point in the same way that Hemingway was. In fact, here is something that might help: http://www.hemingwayapp.com Finally, I thought the information at the end, such as cost was good.

Honestly, I run some of my stuff through not only Grammarly, but also Prowriting Aid, After the Deadline, and Hemingway Editor depending on the project. The key is to take all the suggestions with a grain of salt.

Get rid of "If you'd like me to be completely honest". It's very much implied you're being honest about your life story.

Take out "(AA for short)". That information is not necessary because it does not contribute anything to your story.

Should be "pitting my brother and me". Your mother pitted me against him, not I against him.

Should be "I found solace". One does not find solace like one finds a ring. You find a ring but you seek refuge, not seek a refuge.

The phrase "keeping my grades high enough" might rub the admissions committee the wrong way. Even though it's true that you devoted more of your time outside of class to extracurriculars because of your unique circumstances, you probably don't want to tell that to the ad com.

Remove the semicolon between "After five years of this, we moved to Florida to escape him when I was sixteen; between my sophomore and junior year of high school." In this case, a semicolon should separate two independent clauses. "between my sophomore and junior year of high school" is not an independent clause because it cannot stand by itself. Think of it this way, if someone came up to you and blurted out "between my sophomore and junior year of high school", would you have any idea what he/she/it was talking about?

Remove "on my own".

Grammatical errors are hard to find. I suggest doing a cursory check on http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ or grammarly.com. This is the very least you can do to revise a writing piece.

Best of luck.

Dacă vrei din punct de vedere tehnic, în afară de spell-check mai există servicii gen aplicația Hemingway. Altfel, pune-te pe citit literatură și scris chestii, iar ce scrii poți să pui pe un subreddit de critică.
Apropo, acceptă doar sfaturile care spun "Asta n-a mers/nu mi-a plăcut, ar trebui să modifici". Nu accepta însă sfaturi de genul "Ar trebui să faci așa/scrie în felul ăsta", pentru că niciodată nu au dreptate. Mă rog, asta nu e valabil pentru proof-reading de texte academice/tehnice, ci doar pentru literatură.

The statement should be about why you want to be a doctor, so I'd stick to the latter.

Unless you are painting a vivid scene for the mind's eye, excessive verbiage can raise suspicions that you are masking a lack of substance with fluff.

Consider using http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ in conjunction with your own judgement.

You can PM me as well.

Try out the Hemingway Editor for editing when you have a chance. Its suggestions are helpful most of the time and I feel using it has made me a better writer in general.

Interestingly enough, this is a critical tool of communication. I work in the research sciences, and I have to write grants to the NIH and other organizations. It has become a trend in the sciences to try and write at a very low level (3-5th grade) to communicate points clearly and effectively, even when writing high level scientific grants. Here is a link that is often used by scientists in grant writing to aid with clarity, http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ . It actually classifies your writing via grade level; the lower the better.

First of all, when the writing process is finished, I forget about it for a week or two. Then I read the rough draft, again and again, then read it out loud. I've one old habit since I was studying journalism - I always check my draft using a plagiarism checker https://unplag.com/ and online editor http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ Fortunately, my father is an editor with a huge professional and life experience, that's why I always show my masterpiece to him and he edit it and send me comments. It's the last step of editing, because I know that no one is ever gonna do it better than him.

It is a great tool along the same lines as the Hemingway Editor.

TechScribe used to provide their STE (simplified technical English) checker for free if you request it. I'm not sure if they still do, but it's worth sending them an email to check if you don't already have it.

Well, a quick run of the passage thru Hemingway App indicates it's pretty wordy and overly complex. It's probably so complex that, unless someone is sure they want to work with you, they may just not read it and exit your site.

For more, see the Fleisch-Kincaid readability formula.. It's a formula that assesses the readability of a sentence. On the web, people tend to skim rather than read thoroughly, which makes readability pretty important.

Write first then edit. That's one thing I can't follow. I edit as I go, then edit again two or three more times. I still don't catch everything. Lately, I've been writing in http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ which helps a lot. When I'm done for the day, I save my work in notepad or email, then copy and paste it back onto that site when I want to work on it again.

This summer I'm trying out the Write a Book in 90 Days method from the Author Marketing Institute’s site. Basically, it's >Full outline by Day 14

>First draft by Day 49

>Second draft by Day 56

>Submit to editor by Day 63

>Re-submit for second pass by Day 73

>Publish on Day 90

Instead of sending the ms. out to a professional editor, I've read aloud through the entire thing with my wonderful writers' group.

Next, to trim down the verbiage a little, I'm entering each scene into the Hemingway App, editing on the web page, and copying the text back to the manuscript. After that, I'll follow these five steps from Brian Klems on Writer's Digest.

So far, so good. I started in mid-May, and I should have something close to complete by mid-August.

A helpful tool to find and fix issues of passive voice is the writing tool Hemingway, has anyone here heard of it? It's not a screenwriting tool but rather a general text editor that can analyse your writing and in real time highlights issues like the general reading level, sentence complexity, the presence of adverbs, and instances of passive voice. I feel like I'm being clumsy describing it but it's really visually intuitive when you see it, and the browser version is free to use ( http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ )

You should take a look at the Hemingway Editor. It's not perfect, mostly designed to target long sentences and adverbs, but it can improve the readability of what you write a lot, and leave you free to edit the more nuanced issues, like semicolon usage and varying sentence structure.

I'm just going to leave this here...

hemingwayapp

It identifies sentences that are:

• hard to read
• very hard to read
• excessive adverb use
• words/phrases that could be simpler
• passive voice

You could have a friend read it to see how it sounds and point out any mistakes. Or you could use an app like Hemingway or ProWritingAid They both point out things as well.

>Print out the first five pages of your work and highlight every adverb in yellow.

Save yourself some paper and ink and let Hemingway do it for you. http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Some nice person posted this website a while back. It's pretty cool.

I remember that post as well. I could have sworn I saved it, but I can't seem to find it now.

I found this one using Reddit Search. It was posted in /r/SideProject. But I don't think it's the right one.

Edit: Found it!! It was in my saved links after all, I just overlooked it. Hemingway app

I love the content but the grammar is lacking in many areas.

Check out the Hemingway Editor. I use it in my final drafts just to double check a lot of stuff.

There are also a couple of contradictions. You write that the 3-4-3 originated in Italy, but then write afterwards that it was pioneered by Michel's Dutch side in the 70's. I think the Italians were still obsessed with catenaccio at the time and would have lined up in a 3-4-3 if they used defensive wingers instead of wingbacks. It could be fun to do a comparison/contrast of the formation in the two different systems...

Keep writing! It'll help you learn more and more about the game.

I've taught technical communication (and writing) for the last few years, exclusively to engineers. I've been pleasantly surprised that many of them write very well. A few tend to be a bit flowery and 5-paragraph essay-ish, but generally, quite a good command of English. I also have my share of students who write quite poorly but at least seem receptable to improvement.

One of the free resources I highly recommend is the Hemingway App which is actually just a website. It was recommended to me by one of my advisors since he didn't think too much of my writing style back in grad school. It made a huge difference to my writing.

I have my students plug in their writing whenever they are writing first person content (it's very strict on passive voice) and ask them to pay a lot of attention to the recommendations. The things that the HA flags for fixing really help clean up writing. Eventually, if you use it enough you start to adopt that style without really thinking. It's a great assistant without adding too much work to your own plate.

The HemmingwayApp will highlight passive voice clauses for you. It might help to start by writing naturally, then putting your writing into that and rewriting as many of the passive constructions as you can into active voice sentences.

I do know that I used to use passive voice a lot more than I currently do. It wasn't any particular trick or process, though - just years of rewriting it in the app made it easier for me, over time, to spot it and rewrite it sooner. So now I barely get any passive-voice highlights when I run my writing through the app.

As with all things, it takes practice.

I do build websites and I do know SEO. I deal in SEO almost every day. But Quora just doesn't seem to play by the same rules that I use to rank websites I build. It could be down to the amount of content that gets posted on Quora daily as opposed to a website I build with a set number of pages and content.

I've looked and studied the keywords but you can't just replicate them, that's not how SEO works.

The basic principle in SEO when trying to rank on Google is low competition keywords with high quality content. You want the page title to be defined within the first paragraph. You want AT LEAST 300 words in the body text. You want nice formatting, headings, pictures, grammar etc. Finally you want the keywords used in the page title repeated throughout the body. - But this is all completely hit or miss on Quora. - I read your previous post about SEO though, so I'm sure you know all this.

If you want a really nice resource for SEO formatting, you should check out Hemingway App - Write your Quora answer there first and it will grade your text as you write. It will tell you how to improve it and give you tips over on the right hand side. Once you're satisfied you can copy/paste it over to Quora. -

I previously ran a YouTube channel and I used Hemingway App to grow it. I'd upload a video, share it in a blog post on my website and write a nice article. The article would rank on Google and it would draw traffic to my YouTube channel. - The channel was super successful but sadly YouTube didn't like the tutorial I was making and terminated my account (hence why I moved to Quora). But this method made me $1000+ monthly on Adsense revenue.

What *kills* me is the grammar. Run-on sentences and poor use of commas are more frequent than the baseless speculation. I wish the guy would at least run his posts through something like the Hemingway Editor before hitting publish.

Download the app "Grammarly". It corrects both grammar and punctuation. Hope it will help you.

Another one http://www.hemingwayapp.com/,, but I'm not sure it corrects punctuation.

For an amateur, your writing is good. I understand each sentence, the grammar is good, and the concept is intriguing. With that said, the story does drag on a bit, mainly due to formatting issues and too much description.

I recommend using this http://www.hemingwayapp.com and then editing your piece to make it more concise. Remove the bits of story that aren't relevant or necessary.

Also, edit your speech tags so that they're in paragraphs on their own. I made some changes on page four to give you an idea what I'm talking about (I'm River). At the moment, your paragraphs are too dense, and make the story seem to move slower than it does. Try using shorter sentences and shorter paragraphs to move the exciting parts of the story along faster.

Happy editing! I hope you post a revised version for us to read.

Good points here.
A review is basically the facts paired with your opinion on it.
A lot of people write a summary, me included, because I always tend to hit the character limit and some people don't want to read all of that.
Lastly, especially if you think your english isn't the best, use tools like grammarly and other editorial stuff to help you.
Also, what is your steam ID?

I liked the beginning. I think there may be a few grammar errors in here. Paste it in Hemmingway to see what comes up. Also, you might be able to win $35 with this story

In addition to what colonelheero said, try some grammar checker. http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ will check your writing for readability. There is also the the free version of Grammarly In addition, get some friends to read it over and offer suggestions.

This site is designed for people who are writing creatively in English, but it might be what you're looking for.

As a native English speaker, I can proofread your sentence and show you how I'd phrase it:

> Hi everyone,

> I am currently learning English, and I'm having a problem.

> I need to check whether my sentences are grammatically correct or incorrect so I can continue to learn grammar.

> I tried Grammerly, and other similar apps and sites, and so far they haven't worked for me.

> How can I check my sentences for grammar errors?

I hope this helps D: I use Hemingway (the website I linked to) to check my own writing, and I'm always surprised by what I miss!

The CV looks good, but the content lets it down.

If you want work in the digital media space, you should probably only put your relevant work experience there, i.e. delete container unloader / pizza delivery jobs, or at least demote them to a one liner. If you don't have any relevant experience, i'd like to see some more projects / extra curricular stuff that would speak to your passion and the roles responsibilities. e.g. the experience you mention in your cover letters, with Wordpress and Twitter.

Use the Hemingway app (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/) to help clean up the language in both CV and cover letters (e.g. passive voice, long and unwieldy sentences). Also I'd drop all the references to online game playing in your cover letter. It may be slightly relevant, but not sure how any hiring manager may reflect on it.

Sorry--it's http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ !

I'm a journalist, so writing is pretty important for my job, ha. And as someone who reads a lot of court documents, I appreciate attorneys who try to write better!

While i'm in focus mode, I don't think I should be allowed to edit my main topic (what I chose to write about). In other words, remove user input once the word count is chosen and you enter focus mode. Edit: Just finished writing 250 words and I have more suggestions: Add an optional night mode. This is way too uncommon in writing software and I would personally pay for this program if you added such a feature. When I finish writing, give me an option to share said accomplishment on social media (it will help you with sales or just getting your free product to more people). In other words, remove the 'enter focus mode' with 'Save and Export.' Export can have multiple options (social media options as well as .doc .pdf and such). Don't prompt me with the 'enter focus mode' and 'how many words would you like to write' after I finish writing. If I wanted to enter focus mode again, add a box that says, "Continue." the same size as 'enter focus mode' but on the right which will then prompt you with the word count box. Autosave feature [premium feature or a feature for those with accounts or who have shared on social media] To summarize the button layout after focus mode ends: On the left: 'Save and Export' | On the right: 'Continue' More complicated features would be similar to thing that of the Hemingway editor (http://www.hemingwayapp.com) after focus mode and graphs for goals. Possibly add formatting options like font, title, and font size for exports to act as a replacement for programs like Vellum (to an extent). These would be stretch features but in this case, you would rename the program 'Flowriter.' I can help you with the design of the program but the simplicity is honestly refreshing so don't overthink that aspect too much.

Check out the hemingway editor for another version of this. When I write a notice that will go out to customers I usually run it through here to help cut down the word count (a really long notice will probably get skipped) and highlight areas that might be annoying for a non-technical person to read. I'm not a pro writer and I don't have any other real writers at work to peer review me but this has helped me out a lot.

I noticed that most suggestions had a lot to do with DA so I figured you have a fair bit in your arsenal in that department. I thought I'd give you some more general(?) ideas? c:

Something that I really love using is Hemingway Editor which is super cool since it can check a lot of your work for you not unlike an editor would. It has its limitations, since evidently it doesn't account for style and for other writing preferences, but it's a very simplistic little editor that is beautiful in its minimalism and helpful in its capacities! It can tell you, for example, when your sentences are getting too long to read and potentially confusing to prospective readers. It's really cool for all manners of creative writing! :)

Just as a personal preference I also like to have some white noise going on while I write stuff. Noisli is what I usually use to get that. It is just a compendium of natural sounds which you can combine and it's super cool. c:

Aaaand finally I really like to have Grammarly, which, as its name suggests, checks for grammar and stuff. c: It does so in-browser which is really cool, since a ton of people I know just write things in their tumblr drafts or whatever instead of using text editors. :p

Anyway, hope you get some use out of those and thank you for making this thread! I got a lot of use out of reading everyone else's suggestions heh.

I'm not entirely sure if this is a common thing or not, but you know how when you get into writing an essay, you get into 'writing essay' mode and if anyone starts talking to you after you've spent an hour or two on it, you find yourself coming off somewhat pedantic in the way you speak?

It's a cultivated thing that education systems teach you over time & for which you practice a lot for, you know?

I think 'finding' & developing your narrative writing style can be similar to this. You have to cultivate it over time with lots of reading and lots of practice. Eventually, while you write, you'll find yourself veering away from 'definitely,' 'awesome,' etc. if it just doesn't match with your developed narrative style.

In the meantime though, you can use this word frequency counter, although it includes counting articles & pronouns so that's not that helpful...

I think the Hemingway app (listed under 'Productivity' in the header) gives you some fun feedback even if you don't want to follow it in some instances.

I don't have a beta or a proofreader either, but I've learnt to deal with it.

Use TTSReader or some other similar text-to-speech software. It works wonderfully for me. :D I've been using it for a while now and it helps. So. Much.

Also, it helps to shelf a fic and not touch it for a while before reading it again to check for mistakes. Think of it like letting your brain purge the words so that it doesn't fill in the blanks for you again.

Here's another tip: when re-reading, change the font and size of your document to something that you almost never draft your stories in. See if that helps you catch more errors.

For fun: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Do it!

Not OP, but as a fellow writer, I highly recommend having a basic outline you can edit on your word processor if you haven't already (I like to use Google Docs because they save automatically and it's safer on their cloud than on my laptop) so you can easily keep track of what part of the story you're telling and when!

Also, if you can't seem to finish up a scene, just leave it blank and move on to the next thing you know. It's often easier to 'complete the puzzle' when you attack from various angles instead of having one string from start to finish.

also-also, check out http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ if you haven't already. But for the love of god, make sure you copy and paste to your word processor often before you accidentally lose an entire's evening's worth of writing. Shit happens, mate.

I use the Hemingway app and run my writing through it and compare it to writing from other authors. I don't use it to make my writing as simple as possible like it's designed for; I figure if I have a similar percentage of adverbs and passive voice and complex sentences and whatnot as other authors whose writing has already been vetted then I'm on the right track.

EDIT:

The caveat is that I'm not going to copywrite 5,000 words from a book just to look at its metrics, so I'm mostly limited to stuff that's old enough to be on Project Gutenberg (though sometimes you can find other things through other means) so I can just copy/paste it.

I decided to actually check the reading level of the article.

The Hemmingway App puts it at 5th grade, and judging by the "other discussions" tab I'd say that's roughly accurate.

Yes I use text to speach software for this too. Though I use Natural Reader rather then google translate. I find that yes it does help spot problems tha ti tend to miss when reading.

I also use the Hemingway Editor to help spot areas where my sentences are too complex and rambling. I Invariable I come I'm much happier with my prose once I get rid of anything the Hemingway highlights in Yellow.

Note that both of the above have desktop apps.

Ouch. "Adornar" o discurso em diálogos escritos pelo Hemingway parece mesmo ser uma deturpação daquilo que é o estilo do autor (isto, dito enquanto leigo...). Há até uma app online que pretende "descomplicar" o discurso escrito cujo nome é Hemingway.

Mas, pá, esse onanismo acontece em todas as áreas; na área do software há questões equivalentes, soluções extra-complicadas, demasiado abstratas para poderem escalar e adaptar-se a situações para as quais nunca serão usadas.

It's a cool idea and one I've actually prototyped myself. One problem I found is that people, are, terrible, writers :p

Perhaps passing a post through a summary-generating engine, and then through something like http://www.hemingwayapp.com

From what I've seen, 5k seems to be the average MAX word count. If you're still in first or second draft stage, I say just write whatever the hell you want and then trim during editing.

Also, not sure if this is helpful, but this (free) editing site gives a read-time for what's written. My chapters average between 15-20 minutes a chapter, and for the most part is split into 2-3 scenes.

Hemingway App

I'll assume you already know all of the hurdles you're facing with an application this late.

The Hemingway Editor is a decent resource for making your language clear and concise. I don't agree with all of its suggestions, so take what it says with a grain of salt.

In most cases, your university's writing center is also a valuable resource.

Professional proofreaders are also an option, if you have the money for them. You can run up quite a bill, though.

Some of this is a style thing? You can find your own personal style the more you write. I find this little website interesting! I tend to write pretty succinct and I always score high on this stupid thing lol. You think you're being too simple, but you're actually following that golden rule ya know: SHOW don't TELL. If you think it looks too simple, and it's not conveying what the character is feeling, add onto it, maybe break up short descriptive actions with longer thoughtful contemplation of what's going on.

But as for stuff being too simple? Too straightfoward? In my world, there's no such thing. But all authors are different :)

As others have said, you use a lot of passive voice. It's not a BIG problem, but your writing will really zing if you can eliminate any "ly" words.

You also might want to look into reducing the grand words. An Equestrian is a person who rides a horse, not the horse itself. Shorter words will make your writing clearer, cleaner, and a better experience. and as I always say, If in doubt, leave it out.

After completing each chapter you might find this useful. It will help clean up any extra words. Obviously use your own judgement, but it will help you get on the right track.

A related link: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Helps visualise what parts of a text may be 'un-Hemingway' and may need stripping out or revising. Weirdly, I find it the most useful when trying to write promotional copy rather than fiction.