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…

thank goodness you can turn off checking for passive voice. not using the passive voice is one of the worst things taught about writing, right up there with the inverted pyramid intro and the 5-paragraph essay

Thanks that is interesting stuff. I never meant to imply only hacks self-publish, only that I'm too casual a consumer to seek out anything that isnt thrown at me on a billboard somewhere. For example, I'm knee deep in A Song of Ice and Fire right now, book 3 I think (Storm of Swords). I do like sci-fi though so I will…

Short, simple sentences are best for expressing short, simple thoughts. That is what sentences do; they give voice to sententiae, and their form matches their content. You're right that uncomplicated, simple sentences are prefered for business writing (which tells us something something about the consumers of business…

There are a lot of words out there. Every day, more arrive. Some are arranged into sentences and some of those sentences make some sense. Sometimes people read them. Maybe people learn something but probably not. After all, there are videos of kittens waiting. Most people will type or think: TLDR and move it along -…

Yeah, I saw a link to this on Hacker News the other day, and I thought: "Great. Markdown to make every blog the same style and now Hemingway to make all content the same style."

Long, complex sentences shouldn't make texts hard to read. Hemingway himself certainly wasn't afraid of them. The idea that he wrote in short, simple sentences is a sort of rumor, a cliched description that falls apart once you read his work. Here is a sentence of his. What would the program make of this:

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.

The major steps I took (first published an eBook then a paperback):

I'm seeing a lot of the same advice here (publish here, publish there, don't go print, get an editor)... but perhaps the most important thing to do is figure out how to market your book.

This was also posted in regards of the "completeness" of the game: [Originally posted by Silverfell: