>not only uses an adverb in the first paragraph of his book, but uses the same adverb TWICE IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH I had to put the book down because of the wave of disgust that came over me. Why do people like this kind of shit writing?
>adverbs badreddit
>adverbs goodNeogaf
>>25272062>adverbWhy do you feel so strongly about them?
>>25272077It is intellectual laziness. There is always a better way to write what you mean when you settle for an adverb. I could understand using them in your first draft just got get the writing down on the page, but you should come back and rework the sentence to be better. It reads like a first draft because of their inclusion.
>>25272062>pic orientated incorrectlyit's people like you who give us, phonefags, a bad name
>>25272088Show us draft bumero dos then, amigo. And write quickly o algo
Nobody who's complained about adverbs has written anything worthwhile.
>>25272062Tell me what book this is so I can avoid it you fuck
>>25272334You don’t recognize one of the most famous openings in English literature?
>>25272088As >>25272070 and >>25272139 pointed out this is an infamous redditism/midwitismOne of the most acclaimed passages in Dubliners:>Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
>posts on a literature board>doesn't even know the Uncle Charles Principle
What is an adverb?
>>25272363I just don't want to bother reading a sideways image
>>25272062>>25272062Rules like the one against adverbs are for faggots with no taste or discernment so that even though they (the faggots) are useless and too dumb to understand a tiny, static bit of the world around them like a single paragraph in a book, if they follow the rules they won't produce something quite so awful as what they otherwise would have. see, the rule is for writers, not readers you total fucking cunt. You picked something up looking for rules violations because you don't even know what reading actually is. You might recognize the symbols on the page, but you can't even read because your mind has been turned against itself by people online who are even more pathetic than you are. You are feminized beyond recognition and completely useless. Do us all a favor and rope before you make all our lives worse by posting again. You aren't about shit and at this rate you never will be. You really can't be serious. If there is a rule it would be "when writing, avoid adverbs as much as possible" not "avoid reading anything with adverbs."You know what you should do you insufferable piece of trash, read Orwell's essay on the best English pub. He lists ten things that the pub has that makes it the best. Then of course at the end he reveals that the pub doesn't exist. No one pub has all ten qualities. And no piece of writing is going to have everything the way the reader wants it, whether what they want is painfully gay (whatever you will deign to read) or era-definingly based (1984).
>>25272365Mid
Is this a purely American meme? I don't remember reading it from English sources and the idea of avoiding adverbs would just seem insane to anyone speaking a Latinate language.
Ok no-adverb-redditors, how would you improve the reddit favorite Blood Meridian line by removing the adverbs:>He never sleeps. He says that he will never die.
>>25274515No no no no, it’s not all adverbs, just the ly adverbs you should avoid.
>>25274509It’s a community college creative writing course meme.
>>25274509In English, most adverbs can be replaced by a more evocative verb. Compare "very wet" with "drenched".
>>25272400>What is an adverb?Modifiers you play on verbs to change their power or give them secondary effects.
>>25272400Adverbs are words that describe verbs, just as adjectives describe nouns.
>>25274509Is that not a temporal clarification? I don't know how syntax goes in english, but if it were an adverb it would be:>He never sleeps deeply. He says that he will never truly die.Something like that, correct me if I'm wrong.
>>25274515Just remove them. >>He sleeps. He says that he will die.Of my G-d we did it Morty, we've achieved show-don't-tell.
Stephen King's On Writing and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race.First of all to use your example, OP, Winston goes in quickly...but not quickly enough...etc,Presents some telling detail about the state of the surroundings in a way that is linked to the character, not just Winston hurried in through the door, and some dust followed him.It instead links it to the notion that the state of decay is ao bad there is no escaping it, hinting at the futility of Winston's circumstances from the very first paragraph.What are we all ultimately? Dust. No out running it. Doesn't matter how much determination you have, it's just grittier dust.Instead of being autistic about advice for undergraduates, humble yourself before a work and give it the benefit of the doubt that enhances the reading. It will ultimately aid your own writing whether it was intentional or not.
These stupid rules against the passive voice and adverbs and whatever else appear to have no utility whatsoever except to make those who spot them feel superior about spotting them. It has very little to do with the writing. Probably nothing to do with the writing.
>>25272062It's a clever, if not automatic and native (it is) use of a parallel structure, which gives the "paragraph" logical and prosodic structure and finality.
>>25272062That's crazy bro maybe you should write something as impactful as Orwell wrote
