Slick Write

[Ankari]

I found this site. It's similar to Pro Writing Aid, but has an appealing UI.

For those who never used a site like this, sites like this check your writing for potential stylistic mistakes. The key word is potential. Not everything it highlights is wrong. Use it as a reference for possible errors or places of concern.

Slick Write

 

[Svrtnsse]

This is pretty spiffy. I'm not sure I get all of the stats, but it's still cool anyway.

 

[Svrtnsse]

Since I'm a stats/numbers geek I'd share the results of putting my first two chapters into the thingy:

Words: 12600
Function words: 5870 (46.59%)
Adverbs: 737 (5.85%) <- this is classified as too high.
Pronouns: 1933 (15.34%)
Uncommon words: 1263 (10.02%)
Filter words: 178 (1.41%)
Avg. word length: 4.21
Passive voice index: 30.95
Prepositional phrase index: 100.32 <- this is also too high
Automated Readability Index: 5.16 <- this seems pretty low, from what I gather a ten to eleven year old kid shouldn't have any issues with understanding my text (liking it is a different matter). That's not necessarily a bad thing, it just surprised me a little.
Unique words: 2188 (17.37% of total words)
Unique function words: 164 (7.50% of unique words)
Unique uncommon words: 687 (31.40% of unique words)
Sentences: 831
Average sentence length: 15.16 words
Sentence length standard deviation: 8.74 words
Sentence deviation to length: 0.58 <- this one confuses me a bit. Then again, the whole flow/readability data thing is a bit witchcraft to me.
Paragraphs: 242
Average paragraph length: 3.43 sentences <- this doesn't feel like a lot, but I guess the tool will counts single conversation lines as paragraphs as well.
Sentence fragments: 17
Simple sentences: 460
Compound sentences: 20
Complex sentences: 290
Compound-complex sentences: 44
Long sentences: 4

 

[Scribble]

Interesting, this is on my raw first draft of my current story. I know I've got a lot of work ahead of me.


Words: 4307
Function words: 1755 (40.75%)
Adverbs: 160 (3.71%) <- I am below 5.5% what they call the adverb high water mark.
Pronouns: 616 (14.30%)
Uncommon words: 609 (14.14%)
Filter words: 74 (1.72%)
Avg. word length: 4.47
Passive voice index: 39.47 <- seems okay by their marker, but I should look at it.
Prepositional phrase index: 94.03 <- They warn of staying below 100, I maybe should look at that.
Automated Readability Index: 3.83
Unique words: 1372 (31.86% of total words)
Unique function words: 133 (9.69% of unique words)
Unique uncommon words: 448 (32.65% of unique words)
Sentences: 465
Average sentence length: 9.26 words
Sentence length standard deviation: 6.04 words
Sentence deviation to length: 0.65
Paragraphs: 428
Average paragraph length: 1.09 sentences <- I need to look at how I formatted dialogue!
Sentence fragments: 30 <- I should check this out!
Simple sentences: 310
Compound sentences: 16
Complex sentences: 91
Compound-complex sentences: 18
Long sentences: 1