Comments on: Words words words

By: Kristen Painter

Kristen Painter — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:02:00 +0000

Hmm. I don’t remember using the word “zesty” in my second book but apparently I did…

By: Julie Leto

Julie Leto — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:57:00 +0000

Word count: 41069
Unique words: 6592

I don’t know what that means.

Julie

By: ZaZa

ZaZa — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:52:00 +0000

I plugged in my NaNo so far and got this:
Word count: 37183
Unique words: 5407

I’m trying to be more creative in my word use. I spent years as a tech and medical writer, dumbing down my writing to fit those industries. Now, that huge vocabulary I used to have is pretty rusty, but I’m really getting going on my NaNo ms. :G: Hope I’m not overdoing it, but this is NaNo, so it’s not supposed to be perfect.

By: merlinsmuse

merlinsmuse — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:47:00 +0000

Very interesting. I entered my novel, Sword Across Time, which is a mythical fantasy, and ended up with this:

Word count: 114351
Unique words: 8328

I'll have to try some of my unpublished manuscripts.

Cathy

By: Marley Gibson

Marley Gibson — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:41:00 +0000

Oooo...pretty cool tool! I tried this with two of my stories:

My women's fiction that I just finished is: Word count: 85962
Unique words: 10956 and my category romance is: Word count: 55816 Unique words: 7299

Thanks for posting this!
= )