If you’ve ever laid back on a cloudy day and tried to see shapes and images in the floating, fluffy balls of water, you know how much the mind can stretch to fashion sense out of random cotton puffs. But what if you could make a cloud out of your writing?
Wordle is a tool/toy (however you want to look at it) that generates word clouds based on text that you enter. So maybe you have a short story, and you want to see what it looks like all jumbled up and mixed together. You can choose all sorts of different layout options, with font, color, size, etc. And there’s a nifty little feature that, depending on how often a word shows up in the text you submit, the larger it will be in the resulting cloud. That way you can see if there are any overly repetitious words in your prose, ones you may not have even thought about.
I’m sure there are other ways to use this. Artistic ventures, a new form of poetry…who knows? Have fun with it, and feel free to link up any word clouds you create in the comments.
I see that smile.