Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Writing is on the Wall

Haven't had time to read my blog lately? No worries. Wordle has composed a summary of the Read Write Believe feed for you. (Click on any image to view it more closely.)


Here's one of Letters From Rapunzel:

I first heard about Wordle from Laura. (Check out the image of her 50 States Poems collection.) MotherReader tried it, too. And Barbara played with it yesterday.

Besides being beautiful, I think writers could use this to check their work for theme and for balance. Or just to procrastinate. Here's one compiled from my poetry:





9 comments:

  1. This was really interesting.
    Wouldn't it be fun to put the poetry princesses poems into that?

    It showed me my current WIP is WAY imbalanced. Hm. Moving to correct that!

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  2. Wordle is indeed very cool. I was surprised to find "looked" so big in my own manuscript.

    I am intrigued by the CORN in your poetry.

    See you in LA this weekend.

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  3. I love that CORN shows up on your poetry Wordle ... it brought me right back to the retreat and those images from your poem!

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  4. Don't you just love these?

    btw - how'd you get them to embed so that you could click and make them bigger? (if that makes sense)

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  5. Excuse me while I geek talk with Barbara... I saved them as PDF files first (in the print menu,) then opened them in the Preview program. I picked Save As, and saved as a JPG. Then I uploaded. Make sense?

    Jacqui, the CORN comes from one particular poem that I posted on a poetry Friday. I'd have to look it up to see exactly which one, but all my PF posts are archived under the link to the right, if you're interested.

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  6. Oh, you've got me dreaming of blue, plastic place mats and coasters. I love your corny poetry. I miss hearing it read aloud.

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  7. *Love* your Rapunzel wordle. That big don't, the bridge, dad, didn't, think, know, can't...took me back to her struggle--great book.

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  8. I award you the Geek of the Day crown!

    Thanks....

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  9. Aww, "alone" is so big. The solitary life of a writer....

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