The Swivet [Colleen Lindsay]: A note on adverbs:

Thursday, February 14, 2008

GET RID OF THEM!

That is all. Thank you for your time.

xoxox,

La Gringa

Brigid said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; February 14, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Brigid said...: Holy crap. I hope it wasn't my query that fed into this. :-); February 14, 2008 at 6:24 AM
Adam Lipkin said...: Dagnabbit! I was going to leave a comment saying, "I'll work on that tomorrow," with the word "tomorrow" struck out, to indicate that I'd killed the adverb, but stoopid Blogger doesn't allow the S or Strike tags. So pretend I made the joke anyway.

(Also, without adverbs, where would poor Tom Swift be?); February 14, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Nathan said...: What have you got against totally awesome adverbs?; February 14, 2008 at 9:50 AM
S. E. Ward said...: I'm gradually working on it! Eventually I'll have it done! ;)

I once wrote an entire practise novel without adverbs (or speech tags apart from "said")--180,000 words. Oh, man, that was difficult, but it broke me of the habit to the point that I wince when other people use them.; February 14, 2008 at 10:18 AM