Thanks! :)

Sorry for replying 5 months after the fact, but I just wanted to commend you. It's incredibly rare to find people actually looking at evidence when discussing grammar, and your post just made my night.

I don't have much experience with Hemingway in particular, but I've got some fairly heavy reservations about this sort of software in general. To paint with a very broad brush, computerized grammar analysis is still in its infancy, and consumer products of this sort tend to rely on simplified models that are prone to…

@aidende-grasse and Whitson Gordon,

Heh... yeah, I wasn't sure whether the undercurrent was there or not, and it honestly doesn't take much to get me up on a soap-box. And I know exactly what you mean — I'm friggin' terrible at finding media. I've spent too many evenings browsing through Netflix without ever managing to watch anything.

...and screwed up the link the first time. Classic.

Hope no one minds if I point you toward my books on NoiseTrade. Both novels in the Biotech Legacy series are there, completely free of charge and Creative Commons licensed. If you're a fan of aliens, living machines, intricate world-building, and casts of (overly) sarcastic characters, you should drop by and grab a…

Being one of those writers who gives work away, I just wanted to share my perspective with you. I originally wanted to be properly published (just like everyone else), but things looked pretty bleak. Most of my favorite novels—genre classics that'd been translated into hundreds of languages—were rejected 40-100 times…

When I started out, I published to every platform I could get my hands on, including Amazon KDP, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords (which distributes to iBooks, Sony, Kobo, and a handful of other stores), in addition to free options like Feedbooks, WattPad, and a few BitTorrent trackers.

This post matches my experience pretty strikingly, and I couldn't possibly agree with it more. Discoverability is a huge challenge for self-published writers, with most avenues for promotion either jammed with traffic or blocked outright.

My readers seem to think I'm pretty good. If you're into science-fiction, fantasy, or sword & sorcery, you should give my work a shot.

God bless you, Levni82.

It makes me sad that Lifehacker ran this article at all. The site otherwise hews toward scientific fact and reproducibility, yet here they've published an article written by a layman on a subject for which he has no special training or insight, and in which he offers no evidence or basis for his suggestions. He…

So, I see you're not familiar with the principle of negrolibrium.

VOTE: BEST AUDIO EDITING APPLICATION

I'm not one of these best selling writers, but I thought I'd share some of my experiences slowly climbing the heap, in case anyone's interested in seeing what the other side of the curtain is like. I apologize ahead of time for the length.

Both can be explored without any need of a pseudonym. One of the things I learned from traditionally published friends is that (except in rare cases) publishers do little to market or promote their books. The job of building an audience instead rests almost entirely on the author's shoulders, pretty much exactly as…

Not to be rude, but you've misspelled Professor Pullum's name every single time. #Corrections

I don't know about discipline, will power and dedication per se, but I used to love working out after lighting up, and often right to the point of total exhaustion.

@CranstonIde RE: #3