Why PeeDee Doesn't Like Adverbs
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Just remember nothing lasts forever and given long enough, everything comes around again - apply it to properly, finally and irrevocably to adverbs. lol
The adverb is not your friend.
The verb was made to do all the work.
That is all.
Death to adverbs!
The verb was made to do all the work.
That is all.
Death to adverbs!
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Rllgthunder said:
PeeDee will also run a workshop on the difference between adjectives and adverbs.
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PeeDee is here to look good, he's the eyecandy! Don't be bothering him with such questions... hehe...
hehe...
SouthernWriter1978 said:
Is that why he wears the stretchy pants?
**getting tired of waiting for Pete's answer**
Doctor Shifty said:PeeDee will also run a workshop on the difference between adjectives and adverbs.
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Me too. But why stop at adverb slaughter? Let's get down to the core.maestrowork said:
Tarzan hungry. Tarzan eat.
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This is like in the movies when everybody gathers in the schoolyard to wait for the huge fight to go down.
*stares and awaits the rumble*
*stares and awaits the rumble*
Shhh. I sort of like adverbs (in moderation). Don't tell. I wear jewelry and sometimes my words do too.
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I was editing one my shorts for the gazillionth time today when I came across this nasty one:
Distressingly attractive!
Distressingly attractive!
Okay. I'll concede. Many adverbs should be taken out and humanely euthanized. I write humour and I use them for specific reasons. But I read a book (that came highly recommended) and had to give up after the first chapter because not one single character managed to say anything that wasn't modified by adverb. It drove me nuts.
But I don't mind a little adverbage. (why be a writer if you can't make up words?)
But I don't mind a little adverbage.
(why be a writer if you can't make up words?)That's what y'all get for knowing what adverbs are in the first place.
Typing two-fingeredly,
Rick
Typing two-fingeredly,
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My name is Jeanne, and I love adverbs. I am fond of adjectives, too. Frankly, all the parts of the sentence are oddly attractive to me. That's just the kind of girl I am.
*pssst...I don't think PeeDee's gonna come rumble here. I think he got a better offer from someone in stretchy pants. They could be sparkly pants, too. Maybe even oddly sparkly and strangely stretchy pants.*
My name is Jeanne, and I love adverbs. I am fond of adjectives, too. Frankly, all the parts of the sentence are oddly attractive to me. That's just the kind of girl I am.
*pssst...I don't think PeeDee's gonna come rumble here. I think he got a better offer from someone in stretchy pants. They could be sparkly pants, too. Maybe even oddly sparkly and strangely stretchy pants.*
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Shadow_Ferret said:
Adverbs are wonderful in all sort of writing -- technical papers, magazine articles, user manuals, news stories, even personal essays and message board posts. It works very well with "telling."
But we're here in Novel Writing. We want to absorb the readers in our stories. Abverbs are catch-all words to "tell": He walked angrily; she sang beautifully; they laughed hysterically. In novels, we want to show more, tell less. We want to show how angrily he walked, how beautifully she sang, and how hysterically they laughed. Adverbs most often become placeholders, vague and dull. They're one step further down the chain than adjectives. Granted, "her song was beautiful" is not better than "she sang beautifully" but adjectives are still a tad better if used well: "Her song came as light as the breeze and as soft as a rose petal" Abverbs most often just get stuck in the land of dull.
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