You spruce up your wardrobe with the clotheswashers in a laundromat.

You spruce up your writing with the prosewashers in Editomat.

Editomat shows you how to make your writing brighter and cleaner.

Editomat has over a dozen tools to help you improve your stories, including:
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We all use weak words when we're speaking.

That doesn't mean we should use them when we're writing. These words have become meaningless from overuse. They are vague, or they may be as superfluous as the "Umm" that we all say and never write (except sparingly in dialog).

For instance, the word "very" is useless. I can say my character is "angry" or is "very angry". It doesn't change what the reader sees. The reader sees that my character is angry. Even "a little angry" doesn't help the reader. Your character is angry or not.

Other words, like "went" just don't convery as much information as the reader wants.
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Weak Words

There are dozens of weak words that we all use too often. They clutter our story without adding any depth. For instance, a small jetliner is larger than a big insect.

Editomat has a list of weak words and will highlight those in your text.

There's nothing wrong with these words, except that using a better word will give your story more punch.
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Leading Dependent Clause Starting a sentence with a dependent clause is perfectly grammatical.

But if you have too many of them, your prose becomes less direct and forceful.

Finding and counting these by hand is tedious.

Editomat will highlight these phrases so you can easily scan your text and decide which ones should be rewritten as direct sentences.

Editomat performs many analyses of your prose.

These three features help you polish your prose; make it tighter and cleaner.

1. Weak Words

   There are dozens of weak words that we all use too often. They clutter our story without adding any depth. For instance, small jetliner is larger than a big insect.

   Editomat has a list of weak words and will highlight those in your text.

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Repeated Words

It's easy to get a word stuck in your head and use that word over and over. This is especially true during first drafts when you are capturing ideas and scenes before they slip away.

Editomat finds repeated words and highlights them for you. By default, Editomat looks for words more than five characters long that are repeated within twenty words of each other. This reduces the clutter caused by words like "the" or "an" that get used frequently and legitimately.

You can change these defaults using the Preferences menu.
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Adverbs

Like weak words, adverbs can be overused and often are a sign that the verb being described lacks meaning or precision.

A character can walk quickly, or they can stride or pace or even jog.

Editomat highlights adverbs so you can easily find them and decide if you need the adverb, or you need to replace the verb and adverb with a better verb.