I wasn&#x27;t familiar with that tool, so I put a few of my last HipChat messages in there to see how I faired. Once I removed specific words or proper nouns, I still didn&#x27;t do all that well. Even the preceding sentence had four problem words, and I&#x27;m pretty sure &quot;preceding&quot; would join them.<p>I agree, sticking to 1,000 words is hard. But I don&#x27;t think I agree that it makes the writing better. I look at language as a form of expression, and some words are just more colorful than others, but it takes all of them to paint a picture. I honestly don&#x27;t know if I could limit myself to the 1,000 most common words, but I wouldn&#x27;t want to do that if I could. That said, I&#x27;m curious why you think it makes your writing better? Is it that you think more about what you&#x27;re saying? Or that you think it will be more easily digested by others?