Comments on: Novel diagnosis–voice revisited

By: Kris H.

Kris H. — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:26:14 +0000

Wow, did I have fun with this. Although I didn’t graph it, I used Xcel to find my range, mean, median and mode (very quick with the “sort data” function). I two different analyses, one on running a page with mostly narrative and one on a page with mostly dialogue. For me, dialogue had the greatest range–from 2 to 25. Narrative ranged from 5 to 31. I’m hoping these ranges mean variation and not schizophrenia!

By: darcy

darcy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:32:35 +0000

PB–

Yes, something to think about. Of course, bold vocabulary could tilt the “palette.” We’re only looking at sentence lengths and there’s lots of ways to adjust the palette.

Darcy

By: Pam Beres

Pam Beres — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:33:36 +0000

LOL–love the art analogy, and I agree–the voice in my novel would certainly be considered more “pastel” than “bold.” Hmmm, something to think about though.