Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Eight Writing Tips

From Now Novel:
One of the most common pieces of advice writing instructors will give you is to cut out all adverbs. In Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, he writes: ‘I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day… fifty the day after that… and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s—GASP!!—too late.’ (Read more.)
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