Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear

Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:32AM (#7225226)

Thanks for posting this! I've been struggling to write my first novel, and I'm interested to see how I score with this.

Of course, when you're writing, many times you break the rules. At times grammatically incorrect dialog, for instance, scans better. You might leave a subject off a sentence, make the reader hunt around for it. You might make some sentences difficult in order to contrast them with freely-flowing sentences in the space afterwards. You might create long, difficult-to-read sentences punctuated with short declarative ones.

Wonder how this tool is going to know any of that?

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by adam_b_long on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @12:14PM (#7225563)

You're right that short, declarative sentences aren't always better. But, our goal in building this tool was to just provide a few simple algorithms for catching things that you might miss after staring at a piece of writing for too long.

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by Udo on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @02:54PM (#7226841)

It's a tool explicitly designed for the dumbing-down of text. It might have its uses, for instance when you're writing ad copy, but applying it to everything you write would be a mistake.

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