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Ugh. I have a headache from sitting in an auto garage for two hours and I started cooking my first meal of the day at 8:30pm.
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In not annoying whiny girl news, a friend pointed me in the direction of a writing program called Autocrit; it's essentially an automated beta reader. I've never made use of a beta before (too shy and paranoid, lol) so I was curious to see if this program would be of any use.
this double drabble as a test piece. The overused word scan turned up this:
That's...awfully thorough, in a positive way. :P Also, below the overused wordcount, the original text is shown with all of the 'problem' words and phrases highlighted in red. I mention this because when I looked at the highlighted text, the word carefully jumped out at me- I had been waffling over keeping that particular word in for awhile, constantly removing and re-adding it until I finally said "IT DOESN'T MATTER" and posted. :p So yeah, I was kinda weirded out that this program had picked up on something that I had also considered problematic.
The second analysis looked at sentence length. The results look like this:
I like this feature a lot. It doesn't give any suggestions as far as what's right and what's wrong, but it does give a visual aide of how varied your sentences are, word-wise, and with the first few words of every sentence stacked up against each other, it's also easy to see if the beginnings of your sentences are redundant.
According to the last analysis I had no cliches or redundancies, so yay! and also, I don't know how useful/less the analysis is. Buuuuut should I put some other work through the program I'm sure that will change. :p
Unfortunately the free version is pretty limited (each submission can only be 400 words long, can only submit 3 times a day, limited analysis, etc.) but still pretty nifty to see. It's too bad you can only buy yearly memberships to use the full program - I don't write enough to make it cost-effective, but I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to submit the odd fic or blog post through every now and then.
I would suggest trying it just for fun/curiosity's sake.and if you try the full version tell me what it's like o3o
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In not annoying whiny girl news, a friend pointed me in the direction of a writing program called Autocrit; it's essentially an automated beta reader. I've never made use of a beta before (too shy and paranoid, lol) so I was curious to see if this program would be of any use.
this double drabble as a test piece. The overused word scan turned up this:
That's...awfully thorough, in a positive way. :P Also, below the overused wordcount, the original text is shown with all of the 'problem' words and phrases highlighted in red. I mention this because when I looked at the highlighted text, the word carefully jumped out at me- I had been waffling over keeping that particular word in for awhile, constantly removing and re-adding it until I finally said "IT DOESN'T MATTER" and posted. :p So yeah, I was kinda weirded out that this program had picked up on something that I had also considered problematic.
The second analysis looked at sentence length. The results look like this:
I like this feature a lot. It doesn't give any suggestions as far as what's right and what's wrong, but it does give a visual aide of how varied your sentences are, word-wise, and with the first few words of every sentence stacked up against each other, it's also easy to see if the beginnings of your sentences are redundant.
According to the last analysis I had no cliches or redundancies, so yay! and also, I don't know how useful/less the analysis is. Buuuuut should I put some other work through the program I'm sure that will change. :p
Unfortunately the free version is pretty limited (each submission can only be 400 words long, can only submit 3 times a day, limited analysis, etc.) but still pretty nifty to see. It's too bad you can only buy yearly memberships to use the full program - I don't write enough to make it cost-effective, but I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to submit the odd fic or blog post through every now and then.
I would suggest trying it just for fun/curiosity's sake.
