Fun stats from Amazon
Aug. 5th, 2006 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI always did like numbers, so here are a few: the 'concordance' feature from Amazon, for my new novel "Bridge of Dreams".
The hundred most-used words are interesting. If size is an indication of frequency, as I assume, then the boy's name is used more than the girl's, which could well be true (she gets called 'my lady' quite a lot, being a posh girl; he's just Issel). And 'boy' features but 'girl' does not, which is curious; and I'm glad to see that 'water' is in there, because it is a very wet book, but what on earth is this 'ing'? A consequence of end-of-line hyphenation, perhaps? Ick, whatever.
Apparently I have short words but long sentences, overall. Not surprised about the sentences. I hadn't known my vocabulary was so basic.
The hundred most-used words are interesting. If size is an indication of frequency, as I assume, then the boy's name is used more than the girl's, which could well be true (she gets called 'my lady' quite a lot, being a posh girl; he's just Issel). And 'boy' features but 'girl' does not, which is curious; and I'm glad to see that 'water' is in there, because it is a very wet book, but what on earth is this 'ing'? A consequence of end-of-line hyphenation, perhaps? Ick, whatever.
Apparently I have short words but long sentences, overall. Not surprised about the sentences. I hadn't known my vocabulary was so basic.
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Date: 2006-08-05 08:04 pm (UTC)If you click on 'ing', it gives you examples. The first few are preceded by 'noth', another fine word.
P.S. I'm having a wonderful time with volume 2: Issel is all wet, and [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER] and it's all quite splendid.
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Date: 2006-08-13 01:51 pm (UTC)