Before revision, check your cinquain with this structure checker. Make sure subject or title fits the form. Check syllable patterns and word counts. Ensure each line has its proper purpose and follows five-line poem shape. While five neat lines in a row may look easy on paper, as you begin to write a cinquain, you’ll […]

A couplet counter allow you to look through your poetry to see which lines are paired together as a couplet. It will also flag potential incomplete couplets and show where rhyme match might be. It will also indicate whether the couplets align with a heroic couplet cue. Couplets sound easy to write but then you […]

A way to figure out how much your writing is peppered with questions (and maybe more importantly: question marks) is based off this question sentence counter. It count the number of dialogue questions, indirect question cues, rhetorical questions, etc. Questions are powerful tools when used well, though. The mind leans forward into the question if it’s […]

I remember an editor sending back my manuscript saying there were too many dashes. What was interesting about that comment was I didn’t know I’d been writing so many. And that’s when you start noticing a habit you didnt know existed. How much do you really need these dashes? A tool for that would be […]