Great news! There is another grammar checker you can now use with the Hemingway Editor if you are not fond of Grammarly. You can now use the free Ginger grammar checker with the Hemingway app. It is super easy.

Here is how you do it. First, go to the Google Chrome store for Ginger here.

Next, add it to your Chrome browser.

Third, you will have to set up a free account to use it.

Now it will be active and you will see the Ginger icon in your list of extensions: 

Go to the Hemmingway Editor here.  You will see their stock verbiage explaining their application. You can delete that and paste in the text you wish to check to make sure it is both easy to read and grammatically correct.

In this example, I have loaded a paragraph from my current work in progress. It looks like this:

Here is their explanation of what each of the colors means:

You can see that the Hemmingway Editor highlighted a few places where I can simplify sentences, swap out adverbs for more active verbs, and even get rid of a few instances of passive voice.

What the Hemmingway app did not catch was that I mistakenly used the word “failing” when I meant to use the word “falling”. By having the Ginger chrome extension activated, Ginger spotted this error and highlighted it. Sweet!

That is all there is to it. Very simple and straight forward. The two tools together give you a very powerful, free and easy to use tool to strengthen all of your writing. Ginger is even easier to use than Grammarly with the Hemingway Editor, though my sense is that Grammarly is probably a little bit more effective at finding grammatical errors.

As I noted in my earlier blog, using the Hemingway Editor with Ginger is not only for writing a novel or other fiction. The two together are a powerful method for all of your writing be it business, research, or college.

I am finishing up my upcoming military sci fi novel, Lonely Hunter, and I’m using both the Hemingway Editor and Ginger to together as I submit my last chapters to my fiction writing workshop.

I have learned a lot about ramping my sales with my first novel, which has made it into the top 10 of 9 best seller lists. I hope to do even better with my upcoming novel. If you want to learn more about what I’m going to do and how to ramp your book sales, see My 6 Most Popular blogs of Fast and Easy Book Marketing and Promotion Tips

Best of luck with your writing, and please share this blog with other writers, and let me know how it goes for you.

PS: As always, I don’t have an affiliate or any other relationship with any company. I wanted to share this info because I found it helpful, and I think you will, too.

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Writers always need help with editing, so this is pretty damn cool: Two of my favorite tools are now working together for free. The Hemingway App has always been free, and Grammarly has a free version. But now, with the Grammarly Chrome extension, not only can you use both of them, you can use both of them together. It’s not the same as having a human editor, but if you are trying to figure out how to write a book, this combination can be a big help. Let me explain…

I’ve long been fond of the HemingwayApp because it is a simple, free, very easy to use tool to help you spot and address long, complex, convoluted and adverb-heavy prose. Such sentences can wreck havoc with your creative writing.

Grammarly checks your grammar. They claim it is the best there is at doing such things. I’ve always been a bit skeptical, but it does catch a lot of issues. It is not flawless, though, so when you use it be attentive to what it calls out. Sometimes it is wrong.

But be that as it is, these two writing apps now work together in powerful, simple ways that can help any aspiring writer, and do so for free. Let me show you.

In the screenshot below you can see that I have gone to the HemingwayApp site and that I have already loaded the free Grammarly Chrome Extension from the Chrome store. I then typed in a sentence with a couple issues. You can see that Grammarly is already working; it is reporting in the red circle that it has spotted two issues.

When I click on the red circle, look at what comes up (see below): a new Grammarly screen on top of the Hemingway screen (which you can still see in the background).

I’m going to accept the two corrections Grammarly proposes (in green to the right) simply by clicking on the green text. Doing that approves the proposed change. Once I do that, it looks like below. The sentence is now grammatically correct. And also look in the upper left-hand corner to see a button that offers me the opportunity to return to the HemingwayApp.

When I click on that button…wow…what is loaded in the HemingwayApp now incorporates the changes that Grammarly recommended and I approved without me having to do any work to copy and past or otherwise transfer the (hopefully) grammatically correct copy to the HemingwayApp.

From here I can go to work on the things that the HemingwayApp is good at flagging and Grammarly is not. In my one-sentence example Hemingway did not flag anything, but in a longer entry, it would.

Very nice! Simple, free, easy. And powerful. For any writer in need of such support (I always am!), this is a new way to help you improve your writing. No matter which creative writing prompt you start or what level your creative writing skills are at, you will need to polish your prose.

Of course, once you do publish your novel you will need great reviews to help you ramp your sales, so I’ve also written another easy-to-follow guide that you can use to get reviews from top Amazon reviewers.

And this combination of Hemingway App and Grammarly is not just for writing fiction or writing a nonfiction book. If you are writing college papers or even a high school student writing a paper, together the Hemingway Editor and the Grammarly Chrome extension are powerful tools.

Good luck with it, and pass it on to another writer! Though they were not working together when I wrote my Amazon bestselling novel, I did use them both, and now I’m using them together as I work on my next novel.

PS: I don’t have an affiliate or any other relationship with either company. I just think this is cool and wanted to pass it on.

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