Hemingway
Hemingway refers to Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the American novelist and journalist known for spare, declarative prose.
His name has become shorthand for a minimalist writing style—short sentences, simple words, emotional restraint: The app promises to make your writing more Hemingway.
To write like Hemingway is to strip away ornamentation and let action carry meaning.
Writer of prose narratives
- NobelSwedish prize surname
- literatureBody of written works
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
journalist · Paris · Fitzgerald · Gertrude Stein · Cuba · Perkins · manuscript · typewriter
Wildlife observation journey
- bullfightingCombat sport with bovines
- deep-sea fishingOcean sport beyond shallows
- marlinSpear-snouted game fish
- AfricaSecond-largest continent
Pamplona · big game · hunting · boxing · war correspondent · Spanish Civil War · ambulance driver · wounded
Armed struggle between groups
- deathCessation of life
- courageFortitude facing danger
- masculinityMale gender characteristics
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
grace under pressure · loss · disillusionment · wound · trauma · bullfighting · hunting · nature
Floating glacial fragment
- understatementIntentional diminishment for effect
- brevityShortness of expression
- sparseThinly scattered or distributed
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
terse · succinct · directness · clarity · simplicity · unadorned · dialogue · journalistic
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- NobelSwedish prize surname
- literatureBody of written works
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
expatriate · journalist · Paris · Fitzgerald · Gertrude Stein · Cuba · Perkins · manuscript · typewriter · correspondent
safari
Wildlife observation journey
- bullfightingCombat sport with bovines
- deep-sea fishingOcean sport beyond shallows
- marlinSpear-snouted game fish
Africa · Pamplona · big game · hunting · boxing · war correspondent · Spanish Civil War · ambulance driver · wounded · expatriate
war
Armed struggle between groups
- deathCessation of life
- courageFortitude facing danger
- masculinityMale gender characteristics
stoicism · grace under pressure · loss · disillusionment · wound · trauma · bullfighting · hunting · nature · love
iceberg
Floating glacial fragment
- understatementIntentional diminishment for effect
- brevityShortness of expression
- sparseThinly scattered or distributed
economical · terse · succinct · directness · clarity · simplicity · unadorned · dialogue · journalistic · realism
patriarch
Male head of family
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- larger-than-lifeImpressively exceeding normal proportions
- bravadoPretense of fearlessness
machismo · masculine · legend · persona · celebrity · mythos · beard · barrel-chested · rugged · bon vivant
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Escritoresbardo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Borges, Jorge Luis Borges
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Twain, Poe
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- 1930s AuthorsSteinbeck, Faulkner, Orwell, Agatha Christie, Pearl Buck
HemingwayFaulkner
American modernist author
Proust · Henry James · Virginia Woolf · Nabokov · Marcel Proust
HemingwayVirginia Woolf
Jane Austen · Sylvia Plath · Emily Dickinson · Charlotte Brontë · Edith Wharton
HemingwayEmily Dickinson
J.D. Salinger · Thomas Pynchon · Marcel Proust · Harper Lee · Cormac McCarthy