Let's see your word clouds

[elisabeth_ist]

Another potentially fun way to see what's going on in other people's novels? Make a word cloud!

The simplest website I've found for this can be found at https://worditout.com/word-cloud/create. Just copy/paste your text into the text box and tweak as you see fit. The program takes the most frequently occurring words and makes a little cloud of them.

I've upped my word limit to 500 words rather than 100 words, as I think it makes for a more interesting word cloud, but you do you. I'll post mine below; looking forward to seeing what the rest of you have got!

[Random_Guy]

Oh, hey, once I have a chance I'll do this, that sounds fun.

[elisabeth_ist]

Here's Hannah, Not the Wolf:

Hannah, Not the Wolf | Tapas

[elisabeth_ist]

Ooh, you definitely should!

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Biggest words are my characters' fucking names
They are also redlined on autocorrect so I am tired of seeing it.

[RainbowCat]

Well, it looks kind of good

Dreams and Nightmares | Tapas

[sxxaint]

okay i love this visualisation!! I wound up with ~296 words in this (looks like i swear too much oops)

[elisabeth_ist]

I like the juxtaposition of "grumpy" and "laughing"! Your characters sound fun.

[foxnflames]

Here’s mine!

[LadyN]

Well this is lovely.

[RainbowCat]

Yes! I guess that's because my main characters are quite different from each other

[kmlangleyauthor]

This is pretty cool! I never thought to do this before

@sxxaint I definitely zeroed in on “fuck” but it works in your story and with your characters (unlike with my current set of characters - I have other stories with heavy swearing)

[foxnflames]

Everyone has their MC’s name and mine is just “hand”

[kmlangleyauthor]

That is quite entertaining

[sxxaint]

fucking, fucked, fuck, bloody, damn, and shit all made the cut hahahaaa

it is what it is though, i got plenty of characters who never swear but Casper's got a bad mouth

your clouds so full of nice soft words hahaa

@foxnflames thats the beauty of first person

[foxnflames]

it is indeed.

I tried with different episodes and everyone has a random word. But mine is in first person so I wouldn’t expect his name to be there

[sxxaint]

you have such a big cast of characters! there's quite a positive bent to your word cloud

[kmlangleyauthor]

I was like “wow, I write a lot of feelings in there, I guess.”

[sxxaint]

when i have time i might try that for different segments, i'd like to see if the mood changes as it progresses

[kmlangleyauthor]

First person is (or at least I can be) so much fun! There’s just a different slant to emotions and thoughts that happen in first.

(Recommend not switching throughout a story, though. * cries in regret * lol, I kid, I kid. It works for my story, but it’s a pain sometimes)