There's this program called "Hemingway Editor." As is known, the writer's style was all about being concise, rich, and truthful. So, you copy your text into the program to check it. The editor highlights in different colours everything that the eye stumbles over. For example, complex sentences, extra words, and passive phrases. It's always tough for authors to cut through their own text, where every word feels valuable. But when a section is critically highlighted, you can't brush off that fact. You start simplifying, and reading the text becomes easier.
But sometimes, I resist this kind of correction. "What nonsense are you talking about?" I say to the editor. "Sure, the sentence is long, but it's beautiful." Or it insists on deleting supposedly unnecessary words, while I see it as the full-bodied text turning into a skeleton.
And then it struck me: "Let's see how you rate the work of the maestro himself." I took a passage from the story "The Old Man and the Sea." And what do you think? The "Hemingway Editor" tore Ernest Hemingway apart. The writer wasn't good enough for a critic who thought he knew the true style of the writer. Of course, this doesn't mean the program is useless. But it's important to remember that it's just a tool, with its function and limits of use. Yet, no tool can replace the Creator's judgment. Only he can decide what's fitting and what's not, what to get rid of and what to keep. Why? For the implicit, what the author seeks to express, always transcends explicit concepts and doctrines. That's why the author has the right, even the obligation, to break any rules that he himself or someone else turned into law. Because a creative person is born to be free.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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