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I'm up far too early for a Saturday thanks to arguing neighbours and the sirens of police cars (oh and yes I'd love to know what's going on - damn double glazing muffles everything). Anyhow, due to the early hour, I have ascertained I have a legal right to procrastinate by trawling the internet, visiting blogs and not getting a single word completed on 'Matchsticks' or the story I am working on for the Permuted Press anthology: 'The World is Dead'.

Via Goodscares, the blog of C. Michael Cook, I found Wordle where you can create your own word art. Here's what I've been up to: You will need to click on them to see them in all their glory.

Wordle is both a fun time waster for people who like words, and a useful tool for writers. You can upload any text you want into Wordle, and play with the fonts, colors, and layouts, and it will produce a picture based on the words, visually showing you the words you’ve used most frequently. The most frequently used words appear the largest. You can see where this can come in handy for fiction writers, especially, finding overused words, as well as themes, plot threads, etc that are used the most frequently throughout a book.

The results can be aesthetically pleasing as well as interesting and possibly useful. If you want to keep the image you’ve created just for yourself, don’t save it on Wordle. (Save it via an screenshot utility. You can also save it as a .pdf file; see Wordle’s FAQ for help.) Otherwise, anything you save will be available for anyone to print out or use. You might not want to do that with, say, your novel. On the other hand, I think it could make a small though neat promotional tool, especially if you save it under the book’s title and with your name. I saw a few on Wordle like that–and while I didn’t stay to peruse them, I did see the books’ titles–which is part of book promotion.

Thanks to Justine Larbalestier and her wonderful post on Wordle and how she used it for her novels, for introducing me to Wordle’s usefulness and fun play factor.

You need to have Java installed on your computer or your browser in order to view the Wordle creations.

A brother and sister live together (and of course have a mother) and go to a street fair and Matt gets Kidnapped!!!Kate and Matt have been reading a story for years, Abadazad, and Kate actually has to GO to Abadazad to save her little brother!!! Abadazad is a place where it has half-rabbit half-turtles and it has sour trees and it has trees that grow food - and not just apples and pears it grows hamburgers,hot dogs,and pizza. Then dessert trees grow cupcakes,cookies,cakes,and pies. Abadazad has grouchy rocks that glare at you whenever you walk by them. It just seems really cool!

I like this because it's like a fantasy book like Narnia or Harry Potter. This book is like Harry Potter and Narnia because the girl goes into a different land like Narnia and it has magic like Harry Potter. This book is also like Holes because Holes is two stories in one because it talks about Stanly the main character going into the Holes camp and then it talks about Sam and the school teacher. In this story it tells about what's happening with Kate and Matt then sometimes it just tells the story about Abadazad. I think it's neat it is also text on a page when she is narrorating and writing in her journal, and when it's telling about Matt and Kate it's in comic form.

I'm disappointed because more people need to notice it like when it was in the library I didn't even notice it, my step-mom did.I think that maybe the reason why is that maybe it should be advertised because it's not like Harry Potter book that just came out because everybody wants it, but since Abadazad is such a odd name for a book more people will want to read that too if it was advertised.