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"The horse and the infant"

Try embroidering a straight line.

Now try a curved line.

Now make those lines smaller.

Make letters.

Make it look good.

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An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

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Bat!sib: Hey, Jason, why did the chicken cross the road?

Jason: “To get to the other side?”

Bat!sib: You were supposed to say “I dunno, why?”

Jason: Fine, I don’t know, why did the chicken cross the road?

Bat!sib: To get to the idiot’s house.

Jason: . . . Ok?

Bat!sib: Hey, Jason, knock knock.

Jason: No.

Bat!sib: You were supposed to say “Who’s there?”

Jason: Fine. . . Let’s get this over with. Who’s there?

Bat!sib: The chicken.

Jason:

Jason: Listen here you little shit—

Wonder if he has insurance (I don’t think so, not with that ascot)

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WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME WE COULD DO THAT?????

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Stfu

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I think im genderfluid wtf do i do help

"I'll become the monster."

No comment but this is gold. English is one hell of a language.

How To Make Your Writing Less Stiff 6

Part 5

Part 1

Adverbs

Gasp! Oh no. Dare come yet more writing advice burning adverbs at the stake? Vindictively, gleefully, manically dancing in the ashes?

No.

This is not about whether or not you should use them, but their frequency and obvious places to replace them. Most bad adverbs are the common ones that could be replaced by verbs we all know.

“She ran quickly” // “She sprinted”

“He said angrily” // “He snapped” “He chided” “He chastised”

vs.

“He ate voraciously”

“She swayed solemnly”

“She laughed sadly”

Bonus if you can add in some alliteration like ‘swayed solemnly’

If you can come up with an obvious verb to replace your verb + adverb combo, do so. If it would take more words or the closest applicable verb doesn’t hit the same vibe, then leave it. Adverbs should enhance the verb, not be redundant. Verbs shouldn’t be pretentious just to avoid them.

“She smiled happily” — most smiles are happy. Happily is redundant.

“He ran quickly” —a run is, by nature, quick

vs.

“She smiled sourly”

“He ran erratically”

Also!

The adverb need not always be after the verb.

“C accepted gladly” // “C gladly accepted”

But also

“Glad, C accepted”

“A shook their head resolutely” // “Resolute, A shook their head”

“The child skipped excitedly away.” // “Excited, the child skipped away.” // “The child skipped away, excited.”

English is flexible like that.

Which is what I mean with managing your adverb frequency. As most end in the -ly, too many in succession, on top of the repeat syntax of Subject - Verb - Adverb looks boring and dull (and so does beginning every sentence with the subject). It helps with your cadence and flow if you don’t have entire paragraphs at a time all starting with “He [verb]” or “She [verb]” or “They [verb].” We don't speak like this in natural conversation.

But at the end of the day, there are some juicy adverbs that have no equal without busting out the thesaurus for some obscure lexical nugget that no one would understand anyway.