A Defense of Adverbs
Starring Denis Johnson
Writers work with words, but that doesn’t mean we love all of them. Take adverbs. Writers seem to hate them completely, passionately, fanatically, and universally. (That sentence will probably lose me half my subscribers.)
“Avoid adverbs” is a common advice in MFA programs, undergrad composition classes, and commercial fiction writing guides. A quick goo…
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