Showing posts with label emotionally weird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotionally weird. Show all posts

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Interestingly........

Many Writers' Advice blogs say that using too many adverbs in your novels is a bad thing.

Conflictingly...

many others say that publishers like them.

Annoyingly...

I find myself spotting every adverb in anything I read at the moment.

Incredibly...

it appears that published writers use them
regularly
but
sparingly.

Amazingly...

some make a feature of them. Like this piece from Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson.

'It is,' Maisie said, eating her soup awkwardly.
We all chose a different adverb to sup with. Philippa consumed her soup hungrily, Mrs Macbeth decided on messily, Mrs McCue on recklessly, whereas I myself opted for cautiously. Lucy Lake opted for not at all.