I’m probably very late to this game, but I’ll write it anyway. I was reading this wonderful post about common mistakes people make while writing, and began thinking about word frequency in my books. I know I have word crutches that I fall back on regularly (even in bloody blog posts), so I want to try and kill them off with stunning efficiency. That made me think of tag clouds, which usually show you the frequency of the use of website “labels” for a particular site. But one service, TagCrowd, lets you do it for any old text:
That right there is the cloud for The Vector, as it stands right now. I think a good rule of thumb is: anything that isn’t a character name should not be too big on the page. So I’ve got some work to do… sigh…
