Have you ever tested your writing's readability statistics? I remember doing so many moons ago, when the topic came up in a writers' loop. To be honest I can't recall the results from that initial test, which means they must have been in the acceptible range for easy-to-read fiction without being TOO basic. Otherwise I would have stressed and I would remember.
The topic came to mind again when I saw a test for blog readability. As well as doing that test, I decided to check what Word had to say about my latest writing. I checked the opening scene from Vows & A Vengeful Groom and the Flesch reasing ease is 67.3 and the Flesch-Kincaid grade level is 7.5. Meaning, about the same reading ease as Readers' Digest and easy to read for the average 7th-8th grader. The tests are based on stat's such as average word length and sentence length.
I also tested this blog and here's the result. I'm nothing if not consistent.
Labels: reading level, writing tips
posted by Bronwyn Jameson @ 11:05 AM
