Wednesday, February 08, 2006

She smiled....again

For those of you who are writers, lifehacker links to a cool utility called TextSTAT that produces a word frequency list from your text file or WORD document.

I ran it on my ALMOST COMPLETED!!!! manuscript (currently untitled) and if you have any great ideas on titles for a Blaze that reference NIGHT, STARS, SLEEP, or DREAMS and have the "Blaze edge" PLEASE let me know. (apologize for the caps today; lots of caffeine). Any great ideas will be rewarded with free books, free Starbucks or both.

Anyway, the point being that my most frequently used words (aside from the obvious "the", "she", "him", "it") are
"said" at 253 -- giving myself a pass on that one; I like "said", she answered.
"up", 200 -- this is a mystery as this isn't an airplane book. Must investigate
"out", 179 -- another mystery
"eyes", 88 -- no surprise here. I'm a big eyeser. Must remember to check and see if any eyes are floating. I'm a big fan of floating eyes.
"No", 88 -- a world's record for a Blaze, where rarely is heard a discouraging word...
"something", 73 -- note to Kathleen: dig out thesaurus
"smile", 41, "smiled", 25, "frown", 2, "frowned", 6 -- note to Kathleen: up conflict

And that's today's helpful writerly hint from Kathleen. And remember, title help is smilingly appreciated, she said.