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wordle.net
Submitted by ceaton on September 3, 2008 - 5:37pm
Someone showed me this today, so I decided to input all my books, including my current project, and this blog. It takes allof the words, and puts the most frequent ones into a shape poem by size. Not surprisingly, the words "actually" and "quite" and "probably" come up a lot in this blog. It's a hangup of mine. And then there's that mammoth Internet!
But the hilarious thing for me is the prevalence of "like" and "just" and "even" in my books. I suppose those words are bound to come up a lot. (Wordle takes out the really common words like the articles and pronouns.) It's not like I'm a valley girl.
Inactivist:
Grammar Architect (I like how the four main characters got equal time, and that "time" is so important):
and the start of my new book, Chris Eaton: A Biography:
That last one actually sums up what the book is about so far, too: fishing, stories, someone...
Give it a try.
