Matthew S. Cox
Show your work to readers and other writers who are not immediate family. Take all feedback with a grain of salt. If one person says something, ponder it but wait. If two people say it, give thought to adjusting it. If more than two people say the same thing, chances are it needs to be tweaked.
Also - adverbs are the devil. Sometimes they are the most elegant solution to convey an idea, but all too often they are crutches.
Also - adverbs are the devil. Sometimes they are the most elegant solution to convey an idea, but all too often they are crutches.
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