Happy New Year everyone! I hope this year is good for all of us.
So let's get back to the handout I've been working from. Janice Bennett's Writing the Popular Novel - Story construction and Evaluation The Romance Novel. This week we're looking at word choices. As usual I tried to write it in my own words.
1.) Have you used active verbs instead of the passive verb? Instead saying was walking have you changed ti to walked?
2.) Can you replace adverbs with vivid verbs?
3.) Can you replace adjectives with vivid nouns?
4.) Have you checked to make sure you're not using the same words over and over?
5.) Have you used the best or strongest word to convey what you want?
6.) Are your words specific or concrete and not vague or generalized? The example Janice uses is what kind of tree?
7.) Have you removed the qualifiers like very, rather, quite and really and replaced them with metaphors or similes.
8.) Are there any redundancies that need to removed? Janice uses and example for this too - the background behind him.
9.) Have you avoided multiple adverbs and adjectives.
So let's get back to the handout I've been working from. Janice Bennett's Writing the Popular Novel - Story construction and Evaluation The Romance Novel. This week we're looking at word choices. As usual I tried to write it in my own words.
1.) Have you used active verbs instead of the passive verb? Instead saying was walking have you changed ti to walked?
2.) Can you replace adverbs with vivid verbs?
3.) Can you replace adjectives with vivid nouns?
4.) Have you checked to make sure you're not using the same words over and over?
5.) Have you used the best or strongest word to convey what you want?
6.) Are your words specific or concrete and not vague or generalized? The example Janice uses is what kind of tree?
7.) Have you removed the qualifiers like very, rather, quite and really and replaced them with metaphors or similes.
8.) Are there any redundancies that need to removed? Janice uses and example for this too - the background behind him.
9.) Have you avoided multiple adverbs and adjectives.
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