def instance_dist(novel, word):
    """
    Takes in a particular word, returns a list of distances between each instance of that word in the novel.
    >>> from gender_novels import novel
    >>> summary = "Hester was her convicted of adultery. "
    >>> summary += "which made her very sad, and then her Arthur was also sad, and her everybody was "
    >>> summary += "sad and then Arthur her died and it was very sad. her Sadness."
    >>> novel_metadata = {'author': 'Hawthorne, Nathaniel', 'title': 'Scarlet Letter',
    ...                   'corpus_name': 'sample_novels', 'date': '1966',
    ...                   'filename': None, 'text': summary}
    >>> scarlett = novel.Novel(novel_metadata)
    >>> instance_dist(scarlett, "her")
    [6, 5, 6, 7, 7]

    :param:novel to analyze, gendered word
    :return: list of distances between instances of gendered word

    """
    output = []
    count = 0
    start = False
    text = novel.get_tokenized_text()

    for e in text:
        if not start:
            if e == word:
                start = True
        else:
            count += 1
            if e == word:
                output.append(count)
                count = 0
    return output