Online tool helps you write better

Here’s a simple, helpful improve-your-writing tool on the web: Hemingway.

It looks like this:

Hemingway goes over the prose you paste into it and marks these things:

• It gives you the reading grade level and encourages you to keep it low.
  
• Sentences that are hard to read. They are long and complicated.
  
• Sentences that are very hard to read. They are longer and even more complicated.
  
• Adverbs. You almost always need fewer of them. (I wish they’d also mark adjectives for the same reason.)
  
• Words or phrases that can be simpler. You know, utilize when you could say use.
  
• Uses of passive voice. I don’t think passive voice is the monster many make it out to be. But seeing it marked, you can decide whether or not it’s appropriate.
  

Give it a try. It’s quick and easy and can help you meaningfully improve your writing.