Lots of Words on Wednesday: Words!

After that discussion of plot yesterday, I thought it would be fun to post word clouds for the two novels that I've finished. The first one (the trunk novel, as you may recall) was written over the course of forever, and while it wasn't my first novel-length project, it was my first original novel.



What's funny about that is the antagonist is named "Andrew Baker," when he was in fact "Anthony" in my original notes. I didn't noticed I had gotten the name wrong until I was about halfway through draft zero -- wherein I pointed out to my not-even-yet-boyfriend that I had transposed his name onto the last name of his boyfriend best friend. (He read this novel earlier this month actually -- he forgot his book when we went to the farm and it was on the Kindle -- and he said it was mildly disconcerting to have an evil character using his name, knowing that when I wrote this novel we were on shaky ground.)

You have, of course, heard of DREAMING OF EDEN (I love the caps; I feel like such an official liar). Of the three this is the only book that I feel is genuinely redeemable. I love this book. I love the above book too, but I feel like other people could love this book. It was the NaNoWriMo 2010 book. I'm not going to lie -- it maybe raised my hopes for this year.



Note: "like" does not appear to be a major word, unless I'm just missing it. Perhaps avoiding "like" is the key to not-shitty narrative when I write. :D Edit: false alarm. It's to the left of "back," I just didn't see it due to the color. So, yeah. Maybe I can't blame "like" for my boring writing. :D

Then, of course, we had the current (still Untitled) NaNoWriMo novel wordle. I won't bore you with more talk, but here it is again for the sake of completion.



Worth noting: "just" is clearly a problem word for me, as is "like."