text: I was looking at this sub's stats trying to get an idea of what does and doesn't do well here (each community is different) and chuckled when I saw the "Top Keywords" which are qualified as "The keywords that are most often used on this subreddit in particular, **relative to the global frequency of that keyword**." 1. gestured (898.8) 2. barked (652.1) 3. dimly (652.1) 4. chimed (480.7) 5. creaking (476.6) 6. beamed (476.6) 7. gleaming (459.8) 8. hurried (459.8) 9. groaned (426.4) 10. lunged (412.1) 11. fluttering (401.3) 12. blurted (376.2) 13. leaped (376.2) 14. ached (358.3) 15. sprinted (340.4) 16. lingered (329.2) 17. strewn (322.5) 18. sobbed (313.5) 19. shriek (304.6) 20. blankly (301) In a recent rereading of one of my novellas, I noticed I'd used "gesture" (or "gestured") 3 times. The uses aren't near each other so I think I only noticed it because I read the whole thing very quickly due to nearly no pauses to make notes or edits. r/shortstory's "Top Keywords" isn't all that similar to this sub's. "Gestured" is #2 there right behind "patted" which didn't make the list at all on r/shortstories. I'm not saying these words are bad to use or anything like that. But this metric drew my attention to the fact these words appear more frequently in short stories than they do in the rest of Reddit.