Saturday, November 22, 2008

More Silly Statistics

MS Word lies. It tells me I edited the document for 11,412 minutes. That would have been 8 hours a day for the past 22 days straight. I must've left it open a time or two. Revision number 517 seems to be more meaningful to me. I'm guessing that's how many times I changed something and then saved it. But then again, I'm a compulsive saver.

51,407 words. 223,894 characters. 1085 paragraphs. 4151 sentences. 3.8 sentences per paragraph. 12.3 words per sentence. 4.1 characters per word. 3% passive sentences. Flesh reading ease 83.0. Flesh-Kincaid reading level 4.7.

As to what words I did use, there were 4,266 distinct words used in my writing. The most popular, not counting definite or indefinite articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, main character names, "said", or forms of "to be" or "to have" were: See/saw (297), car (175), looked (162), just (158), going (135), time (134), room (115) and right (114).

On the flip side, I had 1,988 words used only once, 663 words used only twice, 315 words used thrice, 215 words used four times and 153 words used five times each. That adds up to 5,884 words.

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