Sunday, January 22, 2006

Finished

Jeigh was very happy that she had finally finished the first draft of her novel, Haven. It had taken her almost a full year to come this far. It'd been screaming to be written probably longer than she knew. Now, some serious editing was to come. She'd already added an entire page and a half to the beginning, a risky move, but a neccessary one.

Here are the end results:

words: 91,681
2.8 sentences per paragraph
8.3 words per sentence
4.1 characters per word
0% passive sentences (she doubts this is accurate)
82.6 reading ease
3.8 grade level

Words used:
-smile: 67 times (recently went down to 51)
..-grin: 17, smirk: 16, laugh: 40, beam: 5, frown: 10
-eye: 270 times
-look: 481 times
..-glance: 30, focus: 22, observe: 9, scan: 11, spot: 11, stare: 78, study: 1, survey: 4, watch: 74, leer: 1, gape: 2, gawk: 1, peer 1

Yes, work to be done.