Writing Experiment

Take a book written in a language with which you're only marginally familiar. Try and read it to the best of your abilities and keep a list of all the words you had to look up while reading. Make sure that the list keeps track of which words you had to look up on each specific page. When finished, provide the list to someone interested in writing a book. Then, if you looked up 25 words on page 1, make sure that the interested person uses those 25 words on their first page (and so on). When the new writer is finished, compare the books. (You may have to read the first book in translation to make a stronger comparison).