Writer’s Wisdom -Rule #39- Trust the Precision of Your Nouns and Verbs

Writer’s  Wisdom -Rule #39- Trust the Precision of Your Nouns and Verbs “Adjectives and adverbs are often forms of excessive manipulation, superfluous deductions made for what the author assumes are stupid readers. Trust your audience. Hemingway once said about adjectives, ‘When in doubt, don’t.’ Same goes for adverbs.”


Taken from The Writer’s Book of Wisdom - 101 Rules for Mastering Your Craft, by Steven Taylor Goldsberry, (http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Boo...)