Oh, this might be a case of 'Shelly is always the last to know'.
It happens.
But just in case there are still a few of you out there who haven't seen this
let me introduce you to
THE VOCABGRABBER
OK, this is just a picture of it.
You can play with the real thing at
What does it do?
Copy and paste your entire novel (up to 200,000 characters) into the box and it will analyze your use of vocab, telling you the frequency of words and even offering some alternatives.
I really like the clean visual aspect of it.
This is an example from a blog post I put in.
It is just handy dandy!
What do you think?
Have you seen it before?
Do you have different way to find overused words that you like better?
