Words I Use During NaNoWriMo

My word processor tells me how many times I have used each word. Here are my top 10 most used words:

the = 1886
to = 1124
and = 1113
a = 992
I = 938
of = 854
in = 634
it = 632
they = 547
that = 516

I was surprised to see “I” there, since my book is in third person not first person, though it is pretty heavy on the dialog.

My top 10 least used words (each used only once) are:

cranky
complaint
attend
sunrise
vacation
planned
exploring
mansion
rubbing
rang

I also found that have used these words the following times:

vampires = 208
vampire = 194
Dracula = 123
blood = 113
night = 68
garlic = 48
coffin = 43
seventy-eighth-floor = 42
dark = 35
undead = 34
rancid-yak-butter = 32
hell = 23
terrified = 26
scared = 26
bathroom = 25
neck = 25
afraid = 24
vamps = 24
feet = 23
vamp = 23
black = 23
kill = 23
red = 22
humans = 19
bit = 19
nightmares = 18
fear = 18
death = 17
strawberry = 15
monsters = 13
bite = 13
spectacularly = 13
victims = 13
died = 12
children = 12
poison = 11
fangs = 11
strange = 10
bats = 10
socks = 10
creepy = 9
grave = 9
zombie = 9
chocolate = 9
closet = 8
wolves = 8
Maine = 8
horrible = 7
darkness = 7
Pop-Tarts = 7
flesh = 7
sunlight = 7
interesting = 6
basement = 6
shadow = 6
horror = 6
corpse = 6
Pop-Tart = 6
creeps = 5
reflection = 5
salt = 4
mysterious = 4
clown = 4
walrus = 4
ghosts = 4
spiders = 4
creature = 4
drained = 4
paler = 4
sparkling = 4
Transylvania = 4
sequined = 4
zombies = 4
moonlight = 4
spork = 4
graveyard = 4
thirteen = 3
NaNoWriMo = 3
bleeding = 3
moose = 3
clowns = 3
beach = 3
ghost = 3
unnatural =3
octopus = 3
mosquitoes = 3
killer = 3
mists = 3
sparkled = 3
glittering = 3
bloodless = 3
vampirism = 3
mirrors = 3
bleed = 3
horrified = 2

I’ll bet you can tell from that list I’m writing about vampires. You think? And even though the words sparkle, sparkling, glitter, and glittering are on that list, no my vampires do not sparkle. One of my characters wears sequined suits. =P

It says that out of 43,188 total words I used 42,969 unique words. uhm, yeah, my spelling is pretty bad, so once it’s spell-checked in December, it’ll probably be more like I used 2,000 unique words. =P LOL!

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