FFF Words
FFF – September 20th, 2013
A regular thread on the Authonomy Forum is the regular Friday Flash Fiction thread, or the FFF, as fondly known.
Each week several authors pull their hair out whilst racking their brains thinking of a flash fiction piece, as instructed by the threads proprietor, Verse_Artiste, AKA Lilian, and all in 1,000 words or under.
This week there were nineteen entries in differing varieties of form and genre, as this week was a “Free For All” challenge. Congratulations go to Yvonne, for this weeks winning entry, as voted for by Authonomy members, “Song in the Key of F” on page six.
Intrigued with the words for this week, I copied and pasted all of the submitted stories from the thread into the Wordle website, the following image is the result. It shows the top 200 most popular words, as used by all the authors involved:
Top 200 Words
The largest shown are the most commonly used. There are also some good ol’ favourite characters in there: garbage-man, Billy, Lanette, Croc, Rutters, Masters, Bess, and so on.
However, which are the most popular words used this week?
The following image, using the same data, shows the top 5 most popular words:
Top 5 Words
Do you recognise any of them from your submission?
Are you guilty of using too many ones or justs?
What could you use to replace them?
Now, there’s an idea. 
