Steam Palace Wordle!
This is the wordle from the first chapter/40 pages or so of Steam Palace. Look at all them adverbs! For shame.
Enjoy!
This is the wordle from the first chapter/40 pages or so of Steam Palace. Look at all them adverbs! For shame.
Enjoy!
I don't really understand the current trend of no adverbs. We use them in our speech; they are descriptive words. (Just like the trend of not using semicolons, or wordisms) It's all trendy. 20 years from now they'll pounce on something else - maybe nouns. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love wordle!!! It's a great way to figure out which words you're using too often (and to just see what sort of themes run through your book.) And they're just pretty :)
ReplyDeleteWhile the frosty kid-side of me loves wordle, the whole wheat daddy-side of me wonders if they are collecting texts for some sinister purpose.
ReplyDeleteI mean, what's their catch?
Anyway, I still think the wordle is a great way to view your word usage.
Your wordle looks clean, Andrew. This is an early draft, so I'm sure you'll be cutting a lot of words anyway, and cleaning up unnecessary words.
PODUNK
MECHOHORSE
"Shot two eyes dead BABY SOPHIA."
Nice.
- Eric
@Laura: I don't completely shun adverbs.(see?) But words like "really", "very", "suddenly", "just" etc are pretty non-descriptive. I do use them more in dialog than in prose.
ReplyDelete@Alexandra: It's weird to see your book laid out like this, but informative.
#Eric: I thought about this. But it's not the whole book.
Um...Podunk and mechohorse are two of the most necessary words ;)
Here are some others I've caught (punctuation added):
Without might, Stratton never woman lay.
Beatrice, head back now.
One must face Thomas.
See milk-like child thing?
Yes, body kiss ground, man.
Girl need baby behind.
Where can I find Wordle? Your wordle does look clean, though, Andrew. I was wondering where all the ton of adverbs were. In any event, there are always second, third and fourth drafts to cut the bs out. I fixed the problem on my blog by the way, Thanks for stopping by!
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I'm having a hard time using my OpenID here. I'll keep trying tho!
@Ama: Just click on it to go to Wordle.
ReplyDeleteLookin' good!
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to try out Wordle. I've seen a few people posting them and they just look plain fun! (Hopped over to you from Alliterative Alomorph to check out your blogfest list :)
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