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What your words really said |
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Want a visual representation of the main themes in your piece of writing? Stick it into Wordle and see what you really said. You might surprise yourself with the subconscious themes that pop up in your work. Wordle churns out a unique piece of word art by parsing your piece and sifting out the high frequency words. The more often you used a word, the larger it shows up in the Wordle. And if you're in it for more than just navel gazing, and actually want something that looks pretty, it lets you play with the fonts and colors. Sweeeeeet! Check it out on wordle.net
Here's a wordle of a children's essay I wrote for Houston's Public Radio.
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The science of pizza, revealed |
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The Ingredients List (henceforth to be known as The IL) on the Totino's Mini Meatball Pizza box is more useful than you might think. Contrary to appearances, it is not just a bookmark-sized chemistry cheat sheet that could double as a reference in geology and astronomy electives. Last night, it lent the sole voice of reason to my emotional rollercoaster as I delivered the pizza from freezer to table.
On extricating the stiff from its cardboard and plastic sheaths, I lost the few mini meatballs to the kitchen floor in surprise at the even fewer mini-crumbs of mozzarella dotting a gaping field of tomato sauce. As I brushed off and replaced the meatballs, I prayed, for the sake of maintaining the kids' temper, that the eventual melted surface area of the cheese might address the imbalance somewhat. However, what passed under the anxious oven light over the next fourteen and a half minutes could only be described as supernatural.
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It occurred to me today that Death as a protagonist would not be too flippant an idea for a story. Really, think about it. Free your mind of the usual associations, give her another name. Call her Katya, if you will.
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