Write like Hemingway with this new app

Write client letters like Hemingway with this new app

Novelist Ernest Hemingway is known as a master of clear, concise, writing. He shunned adverbs. He never used long words when a short one sufficed. His sentences were short and declarative.

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For advisors who wish they could write to clients with the clarity of the master writer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1954, there is a solution.

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A new app, called Hemingway, helps users pare their prose. It points out complicated sentences, useless words, and passive voice phrases. It also gives passages a clarity ranking. (This post was ranked “Good.”)

Beware, while Hemingway highlights your mistakes, it’s still up to you to fix them. The author wouldn’t have had it any other way.

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