POS Tagger
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orchidcactusI think I like this better, at least on my monitor. The other looked like... well, something icky.
Anyway.
Parts of Speech Tagger (ha! you were thinking something else, weren't you?)
In lieu of actual writing, I fiddled with this some yesterday. I've started to try to pay attention to not just the specific words I use, but the use of types of words (sorted by parts of speech). Plus, I always have in the back of my mind the perfect sentence.
For instance, if I compare my own writing to 'writer-x's', I find that person's writing to be much crisper and cleaner, without really knowing why. I *think* (subjectively) that it's because I'm overly fond of certain stylistic choices that make my writer more... (the word I want to use is 'rounder', but... heh. That's how I am.) than it needs to be.
I could be totally off my rocker, but having an objective way to look at it would be interesting.
Sadly, the GUI add-on they have listed is no longer available at the linked-to site, though, so it is just raw *bleck* that gets dumped out.
I don't have time (or the inclination, right now) to figure out how to make the raw data into something useful. My on-call computer geek suggested putting it in a word document, then find/replace all of the ' / ' marks, then dumping it into Excel.
Random talking to myself here...
I don't care overly much for author's notes, other than what's strictly necessary. They alter my perception of the story, through a means which *isn't* due to the author's writing ability. It's like a spoiler, but (in my mind), much worse... if a writer is relying on the A/N to help tell the story, Houston, we have a problem...
So, in my mulling, I realized I have to fix something in yesterday's fic, because I'm asking the reader to make too much of a jump to remember canon dialogue... which, come to think of it, they may not have even seen. (Oh, crap. Writing fic for a TV show is *not* this complicated.)
So, maybe an A/N is the way to go, and I can just live with my shame over doing it.
Anyway.
Parts of Speech Tagger (ha! you were thinking something else, weren't you?)
In lieu of actual writing, I fiddled with this some yesterday. I've started to try to pay attention to not just the specific words I use, but the use of types of words (sorted by parts of speech). Plus, I always have in the back of my mind the perfect sentence.
For instance, if I compare my own writing to 'writer-x's', I find that person's writing to be much crisper and cleaner, without really knowing why. I *think* (subjectively) that it's because I'm overly fond of certain stylistic choices that make my writer more... (the word I want to use is 'rounder', but... heh. That's how I am.) than it needs to be.
I could be totally off my rocker, but having an objective way to look at it would be interesting.
Sadly, the GUI add-on they have listed is no longer available at the linked-to site, though, so it is just raw *bleck* that gets dumped out.
I don't have time (or the inclination, right now) to figure out how to make the raw data into something useful. My on-call computer geek suggested putting it in a word document, then find/replace all of the ' / ' marks, then dumping it into Excel.
Random talking to myself here...
I don't care overly much for author's notes, other than what's strictly necessary. They alter my perception of the story, through a means which *isn't* due to the author's writing ability. It's like a spoiler, but (in my mind), much worse... if a writer is relying on the A/N to help tell the story, Houston, we have a problem...
So, in my mulling, I realized I have to fix something in yesterday's fic, because I'm asking the reader to make too much of a jump to remember canon dialogue... which, come to think of it, they may not have even seen. (Oh, crap. Writing fic for a TV show is *not* this complicated.)
So, maybe an A/N is the way to go, and I can just live with my shame over doing it.
