Steering the Craft
Chapter 5
Adjective and Adverb
This was a fun chapter for exercises, particularly trying to use little or no adjectives and adverbs (which I tend to overuse in poetry, especially) in a descriptive paragraph. In our excercise during class, I found that one of the biggest changes from draft to draft was the verbs. I didn't consciously intend to, but I think in my trying to best illustrate this or that character or voice, I changed how they categorized the action (verb) in every sentence. It was a good lesson because I think we tend to forget verbs when we try to be descriptive, and what this taught me is that verbs can be the most dynamic descriptions of all.
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