Goliath Word Cloud

Back in 2009 I blogged a word cloud of Leviathan as a NaNoWriMo tip.

Word clouds (made easy by the lovely and clever people at Wordle) are graphic representations of which words appear, and how often, in your novel, blog, or whatever. The words are sized, of course, in relation to how many times they pop up.

Word clouds great for spotting words that a writer uses too often, like my terrible habit of people frowning before they say something, or my once-rampant obsession with the word "effulgent."

They're also kind of fun for creating quasi-spoilery anticipation. And with that goal in mind, I offer you the Goliath word cloud five months before the book comes out!

Click here to see the full-size version. You know you want to.

Your sharp young eyes will no doubt note that I had to remove one word from the results. It was just too spoilerizing, and rather big as you can see. But the rest remains unaltered.

Of course, certain words that are missing (or quite small) can be just as spoilery as the ones that are there. So don't look too close unless you want to suffer from S3krit Knowledge You Cannot Forgetz.

For my own purposes, I'm glad to see that "frowned" is very wee, and "effulgent" nowhere to be found. Sadly, "barking" is smaller than I thought it would be, and "perspicacious" totally missing! (But don't worry, "Bovril" is happily medium sized.)

Best of all, the dreaded "just" is either not there or too tiny to see, so that's another bad habit of mine expunged. Yay.

If you're a writer, this old NaNoWriMo post of mine will give you a few more hints how to use word clouds in your own work.

See you on Fan Art Friday!