App Makes Your Writing Sound Like Hemingway

Thursday, 13 February 2014 | by Pat's Picks

A new app is getting a lot of attention for promising to take your prose and give it the Ernest Hemingway treatment. San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Caleb Garling tried out Hemingway App. It’s designed to flag adverbs, unclear sentences and use of the passive voice. He says for those purposes, it will likely help writers. But Garling says part of the beauty of Hemingway is his tone and cadence. The app has a long way to go before being able to replicate those attributes. For the record, this entry got a score of 8 out of 10.