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 Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:52 pm
I'm not good at introducing threads, so I'm going to cut to the chase: What words do you commonly use while writing? Do your characters constantly "frown", "smile", "sigh", or "laugh"? Is all time measured in "moment"s? Or do your female characters constantly "chide" themselves?
Conversely, what are some words you know you don't use very often in your writing? You might want to try using the ctrl+F function in MS Word to find out just how many times a single word surfaces in your story. You might be surprised.
Personally, out of 169 pages of MOSI:
"moment" occurs 190 times
"seem" occurs 109 times
"frown" occurs 32 times
"smile" occurs 110 times
"laugh" occurs 55 times
"giggle" occurs 8 times
"snicker" occurs 4 times
"sigh" occurs 58 times
"blood" occurs 36 times
"pain" occurs 34 times
"okay" occurs 1 time
"guy" occurs 0 times
And for a ratio of how often character names are mentioned:
Vitae: 1024 times (roughly six times per page)
Jericho: 659 times (roughly four times per page)
Sabine: 626 times (roughly 3.7 times per page)
Yinda: 607 times (roughly 3.5 times per page)
Nathan: 374 times (roughly twice per page)
Leste: 191 (roughly once per page)
So? Got time to kill? Try it!
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:06 pm
I'm pretty sure I use "a", "an", and "the" all the time. Whenever I get around to finishing the story, I'll run a few word searches on it and see how many results come up!
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:43 pm
Charlie_The_Bad I'm pretty sure I use "a", "an", and "the" all the time. Whenever I get around to finishing the story, I'll run a few word searches on it and see how many results come up!
I'm too lazy to ctrl+F, but I know for a fact I abuse adverbs like a mofo. Every edit and re-write I do consists of hacking through all of my adverbs -- even though I know it's fine, every time I have to write dialogue it always feels as if I'm using "said" too much, so I compensate by adding lots of "quietly" or "softly" or "harshly". Bad writer, I know.
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:12 pm
I hate using "said," but in On Writing, Stephen King said that you should usually use "said." I don't remember the reasoning, just that he said it.
*just used "said" twice in context*
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:32 am
I f Cage smiles one more time...I might rip his lips off...every post..."*smiles*"...>">;;
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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:03 pm
'Suddenly'. Everything's always happening 'suddenly'. It drives me bloody crazy, but that word always manages to show up every other page >.
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:02 am
I used to use "suddenly" a lot, too.
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