Word clouds!
Mary McCallum’s blog has given me this lovely present of an idea, as well as an entertaining time-filler (you note that I have avoided the use of the terms ‘time-waster’ or ‘writing-avoidance’). Its origin is wordle and if you have a look at the site you’ll get the idea. To create the design above I just entered the url of my blog, but you could play with a poem, or the names of things you love, or even a whole novel.
Love it!
July 10th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Oh yes – isn’t it fun? I love the phrases the pop up – ‘bloggers seeking wrath’ and ‘Rupert usually bought wood’ and ‘peonies poem’ and ‘eat melancholy’ … You should try popping in a whole novel, Belinda. It’s amazing the words that come up – the words we use too much large as life – our preoccupations…
July 11th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Putting in a whole novel would be an amusing way of editing yourself – a bit late, but never mind!