Nano Tip #27: Word Clouds

We all have words we love too much.

Maybe for you it's something fancy, like "effulgent" or "apodictic," or something sillier, like "smellypants." And because we love these words, we will use them too often, until our readers begin to snicker quietly at us.

But those big, obvious words are easy to spot. We'll whack them in the second draft. And even if we fail to do so, our friends will probably slap us the fiftieth time they encounter the word "prognosticate."

It's the little overused words...