the delphic expanse

Let's face, we all have our favorite words and phrases when we're writing. And if we're trying to get a piece finished by a deadline, they can be a "default" that we use without thinking about it. Of course, our dear betas can catch them for us, but if you want to see what you might be overusing before you send it off to be torn apart by your beta, here are a couple of great online tools:

Phrase Frequency Counter
Word Frequency Counter

I like this, Misplaced--especially the idea of trying to suss this stuff out *before* one hands it off to the beta reader!

I'll have to try these. I have a tendency to re-use certain phrases. Most of the time I catch it when I re-read what I've written, but sometimes not.

This is for fun more than for empiric data, but some of you who are both writers and artists might enjoy playing with it.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds