Lesson #5: Use Caution with Adverbs
Posted by Teresa | Under Lessons from Authors & Books Friday Jan 9, 2009Writers are naturally born expressive. This is one of the reasons we enjoy writing so much but it can also lead to being a issue when we write. Sometimes we tend to be to expressive.
Now the lesson begins around this very subject…use caution with adverbs.
We can start writing and not even realize we are rushing quickly through the over use of adverbs.
Did you catch it?
Rushing quickly is an overuse of adverbs.
Adverbs have a tendency to be placed together to make more emphasis in a sentence but lessen the impact of the sentance by using two together.
More examples:
Absolutely dead
Totally devastated
So next time you are writing and are in the revision process, do not rush fast (hehehe) and check your use of adverbs.
Do you have some other methods with the use of adverbs to share? Can you think of other examples of adverbs commonly used? Please share them here with us.