What’s one of the quickest ways to get your manuscript in the reject pile? Overuse of adjectives and adverbs. Writers often think adjectives and adverbs describe vividly. But nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, they bloat your story with empty filler.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn how to eliminate or minimize adjectives and adverbs and replace them with more vivid language that hooks into your reader’s imagination.
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You’ll learn how to:
- Choose adjectives that surprise
- Replace adjectives with images
- Rid your dialogue of unnecessary adverbs and use dialogue, gestures, and body language to carry the emotion instead
- Boost your nouns and verbs so you’re not relying on adjectives and adverbs.