Why Did I Just Type That? #MFRWauthor Blog Challenge

This week's challenge is about common writing mistakes. I make plenty of mistakes. Sometimes big errors in storytelling that require deleting and rewriting chapters. But for this post I will say the one most annoying mistake I make is typing the wrong word.

Yes, the wrong word as in the sentence is supposed to be:

She strolled along the street, trying to act as if she didn't have a care in the world.

But what I typed is: 

She strolled along the storm, trying to act as if she didn't have a care in the world.

Using this as an example, I totally was thinking "street" when I was typing. But it's like there was a disconnect in my brain and my fingers typed "storm" instead. Most of the time, I catch the errors but there have been times when I didn't. Not until someone else caught it and I felt big-time embarrassed.

At one time, I was a bit worried about it. So I asked a writer friend, who put out like four or five books a year, if she ever typed a totally different word from what she intended to type. She said she definitely did. That made me feel better. Plus I heard other writers mention it since then, and just last week when I was having lunch with a writer friend who said she wished she didn't type the wrong word. 

I was like "Join the club, honey!"

This is a blog hop but I can't get the linky tool to work. So you can check out the other posts in this blog hop at MFRW Blog