Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Beyond the Hemingway App



You can buy the Hemingway app but it is also free to try at http://bit.ly/2OKlX6Y. It is a tool for writers. It is very valuable for flash fiction and for writing for children and young adults. It seeks out long sentences which you can break up into shorter sentences. It can help you to drop complex vocabulary and reduce the use of the passive voice. It declares war on adverbs. It also has a word count.
Writers ought to use it in the same way as a cyclist uses stabilisers. Use the app by all means but you must be able to do these things for yourself. One great writer who never used the Hemingway App was Ernest Hemingway.



Remember to send your masterpiece of flash fiction to worthingflash@gmail.com (85 to 1000 words. So every word has to count.








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