Is your latest work-in-progress a hideous mystery to you?

Go here: www.wordle.net. Click "Create." Paste the text of the offending document into the window and click "Go." You will presently be given a graphic that shows the most frequent words in your text in sizes relative to their frequency. You can see at a glance where your attention is lingering most, which characters have the highest profile, and which plot devices and tricks of language are looming far larger than you ever thought.

Here's the word cloud for my current NaNo opus. It's got turtles. And guess what the main character's name is!