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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7449987" data-attributes="member: 8835">Ah, Hemingway....Haven't tried it, but it reminds me of other stuff I want you to know (apologies if you already do).  Let me core dump on a bunch of general info stuff that might be useful for you:automated editing can be helpful, not perfect, but good for what computers are good at.I use ProWriting Aid.  $40/year.  Finds passive voice, adverbs, repeated sentence starts, over-used words and phrases and more.AutoCrit and Grammarly are $40/month.  I assume they find roughly the same thing, cost 12 times more...If you plan to sell to magazine or publisher, be wary of posting online (anywhere public).  That counts as publishing, and means you can't sell them First Rights (the right to be first to publish it).  For feedback from wider audience, look at Writing.Com (WDC) which has tools for this, OR use Google Docs and send Comment-only links out to beta-readers.  I've got a blog article I wrote on how to manage Beta-Readers with gDocs.  WDCis a community of writers, posting and critiquing each other's work.  It's useful when you don't have a stable of betas you can rely on.  Somevbody from ENworld pointed me there when I posted about starting to write, again.Publishers aren't taking Novellas (15K-60K words) usually.  They do make good Self-publishing products for that reason.  Or break them up into chapters and post on your blog to build a following.  Then self-publish them or collate and release a collection book when you're successful and have a book deal or three.</blockquote>

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