amperser / proselint

A linter for prose.
http://proselint.com
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add check for how much something has been rewritten #104

Open suchow opened 9 years ago

suchow commented 9 years ago

This will require some form of tracking between diffs.

Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do?
Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied.
Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you?
Hemingway: Getting the words right.
– Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Review Interview, 1956
“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.” — Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
Nytelife26 commented 3 years ago

What would this look like? I'd assume the check is to ward people away from rewriting things too many times?