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Teen Diary Word Cloud

January 7, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 65 Comments

So! The 650+ contest entries ended up being around 235,000 words (I’m currently about 1/3 of the way through). Here’s the Wordle.net word cloud for the entries:

Very interesting!

I’ll be back tomorrow with the finalists.

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: contests, Word Cloud

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  1. Rachel says

    January 7, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    @Sheila – That's why I didn't enter! Yikes, you're brave. 🙂

    Like, everybody already made the "like" joke, so I'm not gonna make it again. Nathan, you must be like "give me a break" after reading all these comments!

    Reply
  2. MzMannerz says

    January 7, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    I posted mine first, and then read the other entries. I'm not sure I chose to do that consciously or anything… I just wanted to get to it.

    Plus, I don't have Nathan's patience. I love to read, but egad, there were a lotta entries before I even posted, much less now!

    Reply
  3. Jamie says

    January 7, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    Great word cloud – what a neat idea!!! Can't wait to see who the finalists are!!!

    Reply
  4. Seamus says

    January 7, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    I wonder if you get disqualified for using anything other than a teen voice of today? Teens, for the generations I've witnessed, seem to have a common language, without necessarily using the same words.

    Reply
  5. Rachel Hamm says

    January 7, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    J.J.

    I didn't read anyone else's before I wrote and posted mine, though I kinda wish I had. I thought I was being unique in addressing my entry to God, but the one right before mine did the same thing! haha.

    ~Rach

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  6. Sarah from Hawthorne says

    January 7, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    Wow! That's just, like, you know, a lot of words to read.

    Reply
  7. Kim W says

    January 7, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    Your optometrist is going to be very angry with you! At least print them out, save your eyes from the glare!

    Reply
  8. Ashley A. says

    January 7, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    JJ
    I wrote mine first and then read the others after posting. I was afraid I would be discouraged if I read the other entries first!
    AA

    Reply
  9. Shevi says

    January 7, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Cool.

    Reply
  10. Tawny Taylor says

    January 7, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    Did anybody else get Angst Overload after reading those entries? After about half, I had to go find something happy to read.

    Reply
  11. Sean Patrick Reardon says

    January 7, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    hallelujah, my brothers and sisters…Can I get an O M G!

    Reply
  12. J.J. Bennett says

    January 7, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    Wow…Thanks for the input everyone. Sorry Nathan. Looks like I kinda took over this thread without meaning too. Many thanks for a great contest by the way. I haven't made up my mind yet on my choice. I'm still pondering between two of them. Thanks again! 🙂

    Reply
  13. Nathan Bransford says

    January 7, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    Not at all, it was a good question.

    Reply
  14. LindaBudz says

    January 8, 2010 at 4:24 am

    Love that! "Like," 'just" and "know" are all words I have to watch out for in my writing.

    My brother-in-law once told me my writing suffers from "the Baptist disease."

    "You know," he said, "Dear Lord, we just pray that you'll just, just keep us in your care and we just ask, Lord that you just watch over us, Lord and just…."

    Reply
  15. Veronica Barton-Dean says

    January 8, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Oh Nathan the likes win again! Did none of us learn from the last contest:)

    Reply
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