(about 288 pages)
71,876
total words
of all the books in our library
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66.37%
vividness
of all the books in our library
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7.79%
passive voice
of all the books in our library
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3.11%
all adverbs
of all the books in our library
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1.12%
ly-adverbs
of all the books in our library
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1.99%
non-ly-adverbs
of all the books in our library
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We’ve analyzed hundreds of millions of words, from thousands of different authors, training our linguistic models to recognize the most vivid words in the English language… the words that create the most intense sensory experiences: colors, textures, sounds, flavors, and aromas.
Based on our analysis, we’ve scanned through the pages of this book to find the two pages at the extremes, both the most-passive and the most-vivid pages, so that you can compare them side-by-side and see the difference:
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would be up and he would have to part ways. He opened the window and the noise from the train wafted up to him with the cooler air. Then he simply flicked the little book into the dark night. “Why did you do that?” she asked. “What did Popov say?” “He confirmed what he told me out in the forest.” “That there’s a broad conspiracy based on the Romanovs?” she asked. “To what end?” “That is the question,” he said. “And you told this to the Russians?” “They know,” Karl assured her. “I don’t trust that slut.” “What?” “I wouldn’t trust that whore.” “Where’s this coming from?” he asked. “I’ve seen the way she looks at you,” Angie said. “She’ll root you to death if she gets a chance.” Angie might have had a point, but it wasn’t drawn from evidence. “She’s way too old for me.” “But you have to admit she has the hots for you.” “I think she uses her considerable assets to her advantage.” “So, you do think she’s root worthy.” “I mean, for an older woman, she is quite well put together. You have to admit that.” “How old do you think she is?” “I don’t have to guess,” he said. “I have her service record.” Angie stood up, hands on her hips. “How did you get that?” Karl shrugged. “Can I read it?” “I should have said I had her record,” he corrected. “It’s been deleted.” “What about the colonel?” she asked. “I have | of the bed. She rushed forward now and saw Jin lying face down with at least four patches of blood from either gunshot or knife wounds. She rolled Jin over and checked for a pulse. His face was heavily bruised. No pulse. He was gone. Her own heart was nearly bursting from her chest. But she had the foresight to follow her training. She checked Jin for his fake passport and other credentials. They were gone. This was obviously meant to look like a robbery gone wrong. But she knew better. They were burned in Irkutsk. Sora rushed out of Jin’s room now and into the hallway. She put her gun back in her right pocket and found her key card. She went to her door and swiped her card. Just as the lock light went to green, her door swung in quickly and a blur of large men pushed out at her. Backpedaling, Sora stumbled to catch her balance. A hand reached for her, but she parried that and kicked the man in the knee. He buckled in pain and she snapped a right fist into his neck. A second man pushed his partner aside and grasped Sora by the collar. She twisted to her left and grasped the man in the groin. This caught the man off-guard, allowing her to push away from him. Now, she ran down the hallway toward the stairwell. She heard the distinct sound of silenced guns cough, followed by bullets striking the wall |
This chart visualizes the the shifting emotional balance for the arc of this story, based on the emotional strength of the words in the prose, using techniques pioneered by the UVM Computational Story Lab. | To create this story arc, we divided the complete manuscript text into 50 equal-sized chunks, each with 1437.52 words, and then we scored each section by counting the number of strongly-emotional words, both positive and negative. | The bars in the chart move downward whenever there’s conflict and sadness, and they move upward when conflicts are resolved, or when the characters are happy and content. The size of each bar represents the positive or negative word-count of that section. |
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