Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Ever wanted Hemingway to judge your writing?

I was being a general denizen of the interwebs, surfing around and whatnot when I came across a post about an app that judges your writing. 

It's called Hemingway Editor (hemingwayapp.com). You can either copy and paste text from somewhere into the site, or else type in right in there and it will tell you how terrible you're doing. Or how great your writing is, assuming you are good at that sort of thing. It highlights sentences that are hard to read, very hard to read, all of your adverbs, whenever you're using the passive voice, and the overall grade level of your writing. You know, it's like having Hemingway critique your work.
Pretty much
I can't decide if I love this or if I'm intimidated by it, but it seems like a neat and writerly thing that I am here to share with all of you, and also this means that I can get away with not trying to write a coherent review right now. Even though I should really be working on that. Anyway.

I'm writing this post first in the app and so far it's telling me that my sentences are all hard or very hard to read, and that I'm using a bunch of words that it thinks I could do better with. Also this is written at the 8th grade level.

I wonder what happens if you paste some Faulkner into this thing?

So there you go. A new bookish thing to play around with. Enjoy.

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I had a lot of feelings about Hemingway in Midnight in Paris. Mostly of the "hurry up and get back to him, my uterus is missing the view" variety. Which has nothing to do with the post, but as usual my GIF appreciation has run away with me. :)
2 replies · active 501 weeks ago
P.S. I realise upon rereading this comment that it sounds like I was watching the movie with my legs in stirrups or something. "There y'are uterus, enjoy the film, I'll just be up here having a nap..." THAT WAS NOT THE CASE ALLEY. I AM A NORMAL PERSON I SWEAR.
I did not picture the stirrup position but now that you mentioned it, that's all I can think of. (Don't worry, you have one of those modesty towel dealies, so only Midnight in Paris Hemingway can see what's going on down there)

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Have you trIed writersdiet.com? Same idea, but it calls your writing lean or flabby, because nothing motivates like being called a literary fat ass :)
1 reply · active 499 weeks ago
Oo I have not but I'll have to check it out. Because I'm all about having random algorithms mock my writing.

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