Shiny new toys!
May 22, 2010 
It’s been a while since I posted, mostly because I got hit with the WIP blues, and I’ve been busy working and rewriting. I’ve just gotten to the point where I’ve resurfaced, marginally happier with it and ready to keep going. At some point I’m going to post about how I combat said blues, because the technique might end up being helpful to other folks, but for now, I’ll leave you with this.
Some of you may know about the idea I had recently, that has quickly blossomed into something that is, I am nearly 100% positive, going to be the project I work on once I finish my WIP and get it out there into queries. It’s come and gone, been through one serious “I can’t write it, damn” moment, and survived. It’s still very much in that vulnerable, pre-story mode where looking at it too hard will make it burst like a soap bubble, but I did write a scene from it last week that kept looming and distracting me from THE IRON WOOD.
I’ve been playing with Wordle for a good chunk of the morning, after seeing it on the LTWF blog, and it occurred to me that it’d make a great tool for teasing a story. So, here is a word cloud formed from 1,000 words of my future project. (Click for a larger version.)
It’s pretty fun–or else I’m just really easily amused. If you end up trying it for your own writing, the results might surprise you (they certainly have with TIW). It’s actually a pretty valuable tool for seeing easily if there’s a word you use too much. *cough* pale *cough*
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I spent way too much time playing with this, too! (And learned that I talk about characters’ eyes way too much–though I suppose I should already know that…). I’m intrigued by your story just from its Wordle! Is it a Beauty and the Beast retelling?
I do that too! I spend too much time describing eyes narrowing, widening, people turning to look at other people, describing their “look”… In my WIP the word “look” is one of the big ones. XD
It is! I’m hoping it’ll be new and different, because BatB has been done to death, but who knows. I’ve been wanting to do one ever since I was a kid, and I think I finally figured out an interesting angle. We’ll see! 🙂
You know that Neil Gaiman story Snow, Glass, Apples? You’re writing Beauty, Beast, Snow.
Lol!
Dude, it’s so true. Hearts!
I LOVE your word cloud. I have to admit, I’ve played around with wordle a lot, but I don’t think I’ve made a cloud for my current project… Thanks for this great post, and for the mention of the blog! *hurries off to wordle her current project*
Aww, thanks! I’ve spent WAY too much time putting in scenes/chapters/whole novels. 😉
I read the LTWF blog all the time, it’s a great resource for aspiring writers. 🙂 I was a FF.net girl back in the days before it split into FF and FP. Great group of people!
Thanks for the comment! 😀
That’s so cool that you were on FF! I only got involved once FP was out there.
btw, I just posted my Wordle on my LJ! Yeee!
You got some sexy words going there, you know. Awe, body, breath, sound, air, blood, muscles, forest, eyes, storm. Love it!
Axe, even. Far cooler than ‘awe’.
How did you get to post the Wordle picture??? I can’t!
I had to be a bit sneaky about it. If you go to print it on the web site, you can choose to print to a PDF instead of printing it on a printer. Once you’ve saved it as a PDF, when you open it, you can right click the image and save it as an image file. Then you just have to shove it up on some image hosting site, and voila!
Gosh,that is absolute GENIUS. You’re amazing. WAH! Thanks a lot 😉