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September 6, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published #15: Wordle-ing the Time Away

It’s labor day weekend, a time when even the hardworking gang at Ballantine retreats to Maine or the Cape – or at least to their back yards or terraces. In case you haven’t heard, it’s been New York’s hottest summer in recorded history. What’s a just-returned-from-dropping-her-youngest-at-college mom-writer to do? Wordle her time away.
I plugged the whole of The Four Ms. Bradwells into wordle.net, which was mentioned in Poets & Writers, and creates word-cloud art from whatever text you supply. I meant to share it here, but alas, it would have to have come with spoiler alert. I’ll tell you, though, that the largest words in the cloud are, in order, Ginger, Laney, Mia, and Betts – not coincidentally the names of the four Ms. Bradwells. Somewhat smaller: Beau, Trey, Max, Doug, and Andy. Also Mother and mother, Island and island, daughter, boat, Chawterley (the name of the house at which most of the novel takes place), Court (as in Supreme), and dead.
I also ran 1st Books through wordle, by plugging in the site address. No spoilers here – this blog is about writing and books. All that rejection does result in something lovely in the end, doesn’t it? Or all that long-fought-for success!
Enjoy the holiday! – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com

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