At work, you open up a new piece of equipment and manual is written in another language. Terms increase, sentences stretch on, and soon enough, you’re scanning for pictures rather than reading. That’s where the FORECAST formula comes into play. It was developed by the U.S. It was developed by the military to help test […]

A quote counter checks for mismatched marks and curly versus straight quotes. It check for straight quotes, dialogue-like blocks, shared quoted words, and other issues in pasted manuscript text. How often do you notice quotation marks? This continues until manuscript begins to feel off. The dialogue all runs together and what sounded like a crisp […]

Measure the share of words in parentheses against a mix of annotation, technical, academic, and narrative targets. Measure parentheticals against unmatched pairs, brackets, nested asides, and bracket families. Most writers considers parentheses a harmless piece of punctuation. They are anything but. When they appear to often, those curved marks begin to form in a way […]

The Punctuation Police will give you an idea about how many sentences ends in exclamation points. Clusters, intensity, genre fit. Before revising your punctuation, try checking the dialogue for balance first. When characters is shouting on the page, without any dramatic cause, the whole scene sound too loud. A quiet novel might sound like a […]