Count that word in your WIP

I thought I'd suggest a new game just in time for the holidays.

It's similar to "Find that word in your WIP," but this time we give the number of occurrences of a word in our WIP along with our total word count. So, this can be a common word or an uncommon word--your choice.

Example: The word 'said' is in my WIP 508 times (of 120,000 words total). The word 'obstinate' is in my WIP once.

To count the words in Word, go to Edit --> Find --> Replace and enter the word you are curious about in the first field.

Anyone want to join in? The first word is 'quiet'.

Count it, report it, and suggest a new word!

I want Maryn to play!



Does this help?

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=61457

As a workaround, you can use the Find & Replace dialog to Find All and then exit and select Tools>Word count. It will give the number of words, to be divided by the number of words in the original string to get the number of sentences.

Or you can write a macro that ask the user for the string and then count the occurrences and display the result. I think that you should find enough code snippet in the macro forum.

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You can do a find & replace with the same string: the dialog will show the total number of replacements, which will of course also be the number of occurrences.

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IDK if this is the right answer, not being a openoffice user...

Oooh that's a good one--Zero instances of motley.

peered

Maryn! Hello!!!!

Seven instances of discussion in 120000 words.

I am curious about the word 'liked' (I am also curious about the words hated, or disliked, or loved, for comparison.)

Now I'm thinking we need to include our genre, heh, because that's a lotta likin' and lovin', and I love it, Maryn.

very = 59 (is that too many in 120K? I have no idea! LOL. ) Several are in the usage 'this very moment' or similar, and the word 'exact' could replace those. (My like=7, love=24, dislike = 3, hate 13... that includes other tenses etc)

In the spirit of 'very' I will suggest 'just'. (68, here)

38 for smiled, and another 23 for smile. That's about a 1/200 rate.

Along those lines, how about nodded?

Yes, I'm stumbling over the he/she/they bit myself. This manuscript is 34 chapters, and 17 are in 'her' perspective. Two 'he's' split up the other seventeen chapters.

I've made various 'people in charge' female, trying to bring that egalitarian vibe. A couple of the 'he's' are a committed gay couple. So I don't understand why my 'she's' come in lower than my 'he's' but hopefully it's not all down to internalized mysogyny, and it's worth digging into a bit

My project is science fantasy, 120000 words.

he: 1610
she: 1307
him: 332
her: 1498 (?)
his: 1615
hers: 7 (?)

(Upon reflection, his can indicate ownership, as can her. Him is an an object, as is her. His box, her box, the box was his, the box was hers, it was him at the door, it was her at the door. I think this wobble in grammar explains the funny distribution for those four words preceding this ramble. In other words, the spike of her and his compared to him and hers is probably due to possessive usage. So, him+his=1947; her+hers=1505.)

they: 433
their: 266

And I'm curious for more data on this one... so will leave the prompt. I kinda want to dig into these numbers a little deeper.

All cases of look*=348.

look: 79

(mostly within dialog, sometimes as a command, occasionally as part of a descriptive phrase 'with a look of...', and part of one character's voice is the verbal tic "Look, (sentence)."

looks: 13

(sometimes as a simile in dialog, occasionally as a noun... his looks had deteriorated)

looked: 197

(looked up = 34, looked down = 13, looked away = 16, looked back and forth = 7, looked at = 26, looked like = 16, looked for = 3, looked around = 12...)


looking: 39 (similar breakdown to above.)

I'm curious about the word great.