I am so guilty

There was a time when I could use words effectively, but I have become paralyzed. One reason for creating this blog is to force myself to write until I smooth out my writing.

In reading The '10 Mistakes' List at Broca website, I recognized myself and cringed. Here are the first 3 mistakes.

Repeats

"Crutch words" are acceptable words unless they are used incessantly. I was impressed that the post author had researched different writers and concluded that Hilliary Clinton's word is "eager." Kate White's favorite is "quickly" in A Body to Die For. Other writers use "weird" or "sad" repeatedly.

NaNoWriMo...what?

 11/12/2011 - corrected typo: "For those of who taking" Ugh. At least it was funny.

For those of you taking the NaNoWriMo challenge, best of luck! Karen Ware (see link a few paragraphs down) writes that:

...nearly 60 novels begun during NaNoWriMo have been published, including Water for Elephants, a New York Times #1 Bestseller by Sara Gruen. It also became a film in 2011 starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon!

So who knows what may happen.

Could there possibily be anything new to say about writer's block?

OK, it's been said before, but I like the way WriterKMP divides the problem into three problems. See what you think.

Writer's Wednesday: Writer's Block (and how to deal with it)
by WriterKMP at YouTube

Grandma's Superhero Therapy

Original article by Eugene at My Modern Met blog
My writing prompts/exercises are at the bottom.

I discovered this from a link on Twitter. Here's the Twitter message:

from @ThatBarbPerson

Stories need vibrant characters. This morning's character #prompt: Granny is a superhero... mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs… #writing #amwriting

Check out our super hero's face:

Photographer: Sacha Goldberger

French photographer Sacha Goldberger wanted to cheer up his 91-year-old grandmother who was feeling lonely and depressed. His solution was to "shoot a series of  outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, ad locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed, but once they got rolling, she couldn't stop smiling."

He had unexpected success from this series of photos. So he decided to create a MySpace page for his grandmother, Frederika.