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Wow, Hemingway Editor is a keeper. It does one job and it does it well. It's not going to take me right through the process of writing and revising a story, but it's by far the best tool I've ever met for focusing the mind - and the editing - on readability. Word can now do this alongside the old spelling and grammar tools, but it's annoying, complex, and has no grasp at all of prose, always assuming that I'm writing an official document or a formal letter rather than smutty emo fanfic.
Other than nitpicking for adverbs and passive voice, Hemingway leaves it to me to make the style decisions, to decide exactly what's wrong and what to change (if anything), and just flags up passages where I could make readability better. It uses a simple colour code with a simple key alongside, and gives a few stats.
Click the "write" button in the corner, and all the colour coding goes away, leaving a clean workspace with unadulterated text. Click the "edit" button and it all pops back. No digging into menus and sub-menus or remembering keyboard shortcuts to toggle the clutter on/off. That's the kind of workspace my easily-muddled braincell likes.
Text handling is a bit sluggish, like keyboard lag back in the old days when I typed faster than a processor could think, but Hemingway is doing quite a lot of work to make all that happen on a few thousand words at a time. I can wait for it to catch up in return for this much help/this little clutter.
That's $19.99 + VAT for you, Hemingway! If I could set the background and text colours for less eyestrain, I'd pay ten times that. The online version is free and doesn't require a sign-in or anything. Just paste some text in or start typing. I've bought the Windows app, which adds file import/export, document saving, and everything else you need to make text and keep it.
Other than nitpicking for adverbs and passive voice, Hemingway leaves it to me to make the style decisions, to decide exactly what's wrong and what to change (if anything), and just flags up passages where I could make readability better. It uses a simple colour code with a simple key alongside, and gives a few stats.
Click the "write" button in the corner, and all the colour coding goes away, leaving a clean workspace with unadulterated text. Click the "edit" button and it all pops back. No digging into menus and sub-menus or remembering keyboard shortcuts to toggle the clutter on/off. That's the kind of workspace my easily-muddled braincell likes.
Text handling is a bit sluggish, like keyboard lag back in the old days when I typed faster than a processor could think, but Hemingway is doing quite a lot of work to make all that happen on a few thousand words at a time. I can wait for it to catch up in return for this much help/this little clutter.
That's $19.99 + VAT for you, Hemingway! If I could set the background and text colours for less eyestrain, I'd pay ten times that. The online version is free and doesn't require a sign-in or anything. Just paste some text in or start typing. I've bought the Windows app, which adds file import/export, document saving, and everything else you need to make text and keep it.