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You are here: Home / For Writers / The Bla Bla Meter, Unmask Your Writing Style

The Bla Bla Meter, Unmask Your Writing Style

December 17, 2012 by Margaret Duarte

To all writers – be you a novelist, journalist, PR-expert, or writer of Christmas letters – I think you’ll get a kick  out of the Bla Bla Meter to “unmask” your writing style.

Yep, it detects how much “bull” hides in your text.

Bla Bla Meter Instructions

You simply copy your excerpt (they suggest a minimum of five sentences) into a white field, hit check, and bingo!

My Bla Bla Meter Excerpt

I entered the following text from a previous blog post into the white field:

I’m not just talking about the stories written by our favorite authors for our
reading pleasure. I’m talking about our life stories, the stories that begin on
page one of a blank text on the day we are born and continue until the day – and
sometimes even after – we die.

All the things we tell about ourselves,
all the experiences we remember, the sights, the sounds, the feelings, are part
of our story. As Christina Baldwin says in her book, Story Catcher,
“You are a book of bone and flesh.”

My Bla Bla Meter Score

Your text: 503 characters, 92 words

Bullshit Index : 0.08

Your text shows no or marginal indications of ‘bullshit’-English.

If you’re feeling brave today, click here for a merciless critique on your writing style.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

 
 

Filed Under: Blogging, For Writers Tagged With: Bla Bla Meter, Margaret Duarte, writing sytle

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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