This is a length checker for the acknowledgements. It tell you roughly how many words there are. It gives an estimate of number of pages or screens on your ebook. It shows what shape the paragraphs are. It counts how many named thank-yous there are. It checks if tone is right. It shows how big […]

For instance, an alliteration counter will help you look for repeating opening sounds and phrases in a piece of writing to let you edit echoes in your work more clearly. It is helpful as you try things out, converting hunches to something concrete that you can view and play around with. Alliteration is not just […]

One of poetry’s most unforgiving forms is the villanelle: nineteen lines, five tercet plus a quatrain, with two refrains that switch sides. It uses an ABA rhyme scheme that does not collapse into sing-song meter, making it a poem whose scaffolding hold without sagging. Write it right and the poem seems inevitable, write it wrong […]

From Imperial Japan comes a form of poetry called Tanka. A Tanka consist of five lines following a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. Although in English we push against this frame, most English writer continue to write tanka within this frame. The problem? English syllables don’t fit quite as neatly than Japanese syllables. And so you might […]