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Wordle - Using a certain word a little too much?

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Aerowolf
50091 words so far Winner!

I learned about this website last year called "Wordle." What it does is take the most-written words in your novel and put it in a cloud-like structure. The more you use a certain word, the bigger it is in the cloud.
So, I tried this out here:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4392507/NaNoStory
Large character names and other important nouns aren't a problem and should be large, however there are other generic words you may not want to be big. For example, in my cloud I have "asked," "like," and "just," very large and should probably be a little more careful in the future of my story as to not use these words as much.
I also found that I don't use the names "Race" and "Sky" that much, despite being in my story almost as much as Elliot, Quill, and Sun, so this is a good sign that they need a little more "screen time."
I suggest you try this out, it's very helpful!
The Website link:
http://www.wordle.net/

Oh, and I've seen a Wordle thread around NaNoWriMo somewhere, but I lost track of it and searched all the pages on the Resources and Sites forum, but I apologize if this is the wrong spot/already done.

Laughing Turtle
51836 words so far Winner!

This is really cool :D The word clusters are beautiful!

Turns out the words I use the most are my main characters' names, Kalea and Anakomi, and some really common words like "know" and "now" and "much" and "one." Hooray? XD

H
52080 words so far Winner!

I am guilty of overusing "just". Also, "know", "like", "something", and "get".

TortugaRachel
50166 words so far Winner!

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4464642/NaNoStory

Thankfully, my most frequent words are my characters' names!!

my other biggies are "back, child, face, found, hand, time, man, one, baby"

fantasychallange7
53895 words so far Winner!

..."Man" is the biggest word on mine. OTL

Gazoinks
50046 words so far Winner!

Looked is a big one for me. Next time I'm writing a blind protagonist. There will be no looking!

cindella204
20012 words so far

This is great, my software Scrivener will tell me the top words, but a visual representation is even better. Sabrina is more used than Bria and Bria is way more important to the story...maybe I'm talking about Sabrina too much? The non-names are get, just, know, back, and going for the top five, so I guess I'm doing pretty well.

Nimbus
50084 words so far Winner!

"Back" was the most common non-name word in everything of length I've written.

"Around" was in close second.

Sydnii
50033 words so far Winner!

Aside from my two main character's names (thank goodness), the biggest words on mine were just, know, going, and like.

This is a really cool site. :D

throughasplendour
60006 words so far Winner!

Just like back. This is really cool :)

Katarinea
50484 words so far Winner!

"Eyes" was the second largest aside from character names.

*shame*

ladyhadhafang
67366 words so far Winner!

Apparently, I use the word "now" too much, along with characters' names, "Jedi", "even", "like", etc. Boggles the mind.

PeverellSister
89364 words so far Winner!

My characters names are the biggest, but the word that I've noticed that I use way to much is "seemed."

Raquelin
254452 words so far Winner!

I'm kind of proud that obscenities made it in! ...Five of them. Good job, characters!

Other than that, I should probably tone down the "back," "just," and "like."

ElliMelody
20000 words so far

My MC is gigantic! Like, half the thing! The next biggest is her best friend, followed by her pet dog.

Then, in order of size; like, think, help, following, just, know, take.

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