Underground Writers Network Forum A Hot Challenge! (Challenge #2..

His eyes just carefully began to shrug.

This week's challenge is a favorite words challenge. All of us have
words that we use in our pieces the way some cooks use salt � to
excess, overwhelming the nuance of the other flavors. Everyone's
words are different. Mark Twain suggested replacing every "very" with
"damn," so that editors would cut it and readers enjoy the writing
more. Is you favorite word "very"? Or "just"? Or "carefully"? Or
"shrugged"? I don't know if I could begin to write a chapter without
somebody somewhere shrugging. Or the helping verb "begin to"!

Pick the six most common overused words and phrases in your writing.
And then edit a piece of yours to get rid of every single instance
of them.

Stretch yourself by picking words you really just depend on to very
carefully begin to write with, and, well, *shrugs*, don't be afraid to
fail. It's better to fail spectacularly and learn something useful,
than to play it safe and never grow. Please post your challenge
pieces here, or their respective links. Include "Taboo Words
Challenge" in your title so you can show off how fancy you are to all
your friends. In the author's comments, list the words you set out to
avoid.

You have time to submit the pieces until next Tuesday, and as always we'll vote for a favorite and select the piece and author to be featured.

Have fun! ::biggrin::

Hey Val,
Does it have to be a story or poem that we've already posted or can it be something new??

-Dawn Marie
"I am an arms dealer, fitting you with weapons in the form of words." Fall Out Boy This ain't a scene

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It can be either, something to work on again and try to improve, or a new piece that tries to avoid the use of these words ;) The idea is just to push ourselves to make our work better each time :)

I had technical difficulties the day I tried to post my entry for this challenge. I am just getting back to the cafe today. If you just want to stop by and read my effort visit my profile. (It did post there before all the problems.) Hopefully, I won't have any TDs the next time I get ready to post an entry for a challenge. :-)