I sent off a newsletter yesterday — send! — and was met by a tsunami of email responses. Wonderful! (If you didn’t get the newsletter, you can read it here. If you want to be on the mailing: let me know here.)
Today I set up promotion plans for the February launch of Sandra Gulland Ink. I’d like to get most of Ink details attended to before the January arrival of my editor’s notes on The Next Novel.
But now, thanks to a new router, I’ve been spending way too much time fooling around on the Net. A Tweet led me to Eleanor Brown’s Facebook page, which led me to Wordle.net. Fun!
I copied all of The Next Novel into Wordle.net, and this is what I got:
Wordle.net can actually be a useful tool for identifying words that are used too often. “Eyes,” for example.
So there you have it: The Next Novel in a box.
Now you show me yours.
This is just a trivial thing, so don’t worry about this request if you’ve got something important to do.
But this post really intrigues me. I find it fascinating to see what words writers
use most, sometimes unconsciously. Unfortunately, because of the small
size of the image you included, only a handful of the words are legible
to people viewing your website. Do you have this image in a larger size,
by any chance?
Best,
Jordan
Good suggestion, Jordan. I’ll see if I can get a clearer image.
I did mine as well. I’m happier with the results than I thought I would be. “Eyes” came up for me as well.