Basic to the quality of his works were boldness and clarity.Ī writer’s style should be direct and personal…and his words simple and vigorous. His prose was unadorned, stripped to bare essentials, and revolutionary in those times of ornately descriptive writing.
His novels and short stories, from The Old Man and the Sea to For Whom the Bell Tolls, were told in mostly simple sentences, short, succinct, and even image-driven. We know from high school literature how Hemingway earned his place in the league of immortal writers. Passive constructions (the much-maligned passive voice) are highlighted in green.ĮARNEST Hemingway working on his book For Whom the Bell Tolls at the Sun Valley Lodge, Idaho, in December 1939Ĭomplex sentences or sentences that are hard to read, maybe too wordy, maybe unwieldy with too many dependent clauses, maybe too long, are highlighted in yellow.Īnd then there is the red highlight, which means the sentence or the passage is-using the Hemingway app’s own harsh wording-“very hard to read.” Words and phrases that have simpler alternatives are highlighted in purple. Sentences with adverbs or qualifiers, unnecessary or not, are highlighted in blue. You may choose to either type straight into it or, as I did, paste text into it and automatically it provides you with its assessment by highlighting sentences or passages in colors corresponding to their weaknesses. It was designed to judge your every sentence against the touchstones of Ernest Hemingway’s writing, based on his highly acclaimed works and maybe a couple of notes he wrote to himself, such as “You can phrase things clearer and better” and “You can remove words which are unnecessary and tighten up your prose,” according The New Yorker’s Ian Crouch. Named after you know whom, the Hemingway Editor is a writing and editing tool, whose most interesting feature assesses the readability of your text in a pinch. I stumbled upon the Hemingway app by accident, researching for something else.
STANDOFF Hemingway and the author goes face-to-face, art by Des Trudo
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