My Top 10 Words

I thought it would be interesting to find out which words I use the most. Although the top words varied enormously from book to book, one word kept cropping up - eyes. In the five texts I processed, I had used 'eyes' 346 times. The closest word, 'good', was more than 50 occurrences behind.

Eyes are great, the not only help build a picture of a character's physical appearance but they can by used to express a great variety of emotions. I had no idea that I referenced them quite as often as I had.

My most commonly used adjectives were 'good', 'long', 'big', 'bad', 'happy' and 'deep'. Make of that what you will.

Here are some lists of the most popular words from some of my books.

Note: common words like 'it', 'he', 'she' and 'the' were removed.

Pompoberry House

1. book

2. story

3. police

4. eyes

5. murder

6. writers

7. house

8. good

9. dead

10. killer

The Troll Trap

1. troll

2. ogre

3. school

4. boy

5. children

6. river

7. sheep

8. eyes

9. mirrors

10. cave

Straight Out of University

1. good

2. oxford

3. love

4. sex

5. hair

6. life

7. woman

8. long

9. smiled

10. night

The Ice Marathon

1. baby

2. home

3. eyes

4. house

5. good

6. night

7. son

8. feel

9. face

10. mother

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