From Edie: Martin Wiles answers the question, "Should writers eliminate adverbs?" Learn when adverbs strengthen your writing, when they weaken it, and how stronger verbs can make your fiction and nonfiction more powerful.
Should Writers Eliminate Adverbs? What to Cut—and What to Keep
by Martin Wiles @LinesFromGod
To ax or not to ax. That was the question. But what was the answer?
I sat in front of an agent, pitching my manuscript and hoping the agency she represented would show interest and take me on as a client. Well, that didn’t happen, but she did give me one piece of advice I haven’t forgotten—not that I agree completely with the advice, although it was pertinent. “The first thing I tell a client is to wipe every ly word from their manuscript.”
