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Line Break Lab
The Workshop · Free tool Where does the line turn? A line break is the one piece of punctuation only poems have. Line Break Lab reads every line ending in your draft and shows which ones close, which ones run on, and which ones go soft. * Poetry * Revision * About 2 minutes
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Writer Tools: Line Report
What this is. A tool for poets. Paste one poem and it draws the poem's silhouette, counts syllables line by line, and audits where each line ends, which is the decision free verse rests on. Denise Levertov called the line break a form of punctuation, worth "roughly
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Un-slush-it: A Slush Pile Sim
The Slush Sim is a tool writer’s can use to see how much their first page will appeal to a publisher or editor. Paste in the text to any manuscript & see how it scores!
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Canon Spaces
The key settings of novels from a growing library of contemporary writing, place by place, with what critics have found in them.
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The Worldbuilder
Detail, describe and map your world from scratch, or get dynamic, generated edits to hone a world you’ve already made.
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Word of Mouth: What Writers Say About Writing, Mapped
Writers' stated positions on routine, revision, theory, politics, the market and MFA vs. NYC, mapped so the agreements and feuds show. Play Who Said It and find the writers you side with.
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The Draft Scrubber: Watch Famous Poems Being Revised, Word by Word
Scrub through documented revisions by Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Whitman, Wordsworth, FitzGerald and Coleridge, see how each reviser works, and find out whose revising yours resembles.
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The Layered Reader: See a Poem's Sound, Syntax and Lines One Layer at a Time
Switch a poem's sound, syntax and line layers on and off across eight poems from Shakespeare to Owen, paste your own draft, and measure it against a master.
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MFA or New York? A Calculator for the Two Paths into Writing
Set the sliders to your actual life, stipend, rent, day job and all, and see which path gives you more writing, money and network, and the exact point where the verdict flips.
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Nib: The Dynamic Manuscript Editor
Nib reads a draft the way an editor does: senses, image domains, who speaks to whom, scene pressure and cast, measured live as you type.
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The Insiders Directory: Agents and Editors Behind the Pulitzer Fiction Winners
Who agented and edited the Pulitzer fiction winners, how each one takes submissions now, and the published contact routes for the agencies and houses involved.