"Adverbs," she declared enthusiastically. [sheldrake]

You're viewing

tadorna's journal
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: site light

←

→

I used an adverb recently, and would like you all to help me celebrate this achievement by using as many adverbs as possible in your replies. Thanks.

ETA: and adjectives please, ta.

←

→

There are 20 comments on this entry. (Reply.)

"My pleasure," she responded cheerfully.

[link] [reply]

Well done. Well-used adverb there.

[link] [parent] [reply]

"Wow," she said, not at all sarcastically, "I declare happily that I'm thrilled to see you succesfully using that adverb. I was walking grumpily through town and I thought intuitively that I should write gushingly when I returned tardily home."

[link] [reply]

Oh, stirling effort there!

[link] [parent] [reply]

"This is so cool!" I replied cheerfully. "I adore adverbs as the are the most people consider them as abysmally bad. While working busily, I was thinking about this most comely of subjects. When I saw how quirkly you had worded your post, and knowing your penchance for eloquently worded documents,I thought I should give it a try. So I briskly set off to do just that. Now, here I am, rambling merrily and chasing these deplorably bad thoughts all over your LJ. I feel terribly bad about all this. I did mean for the text to be more clearly and cleanly stated but I shall endeavor to adjust my next post accordingly."

[link] [reply]

*round of applause* I think you might even win the 'most adverbs' prize. Sadly, it's not worth winning.

[link] [parent] [reply]

Although Stephen King tries doggedly to excise adverbs from his prose, I love them passionately and obsessively seek out stories that brazenly flaunt them. That's why I enjoy, decreasingly but still enduringly, Joanne Rowling's stories. So please, ladies who write religiously, feel completely free to blithely ignore Elmore Leonard's unwisely given and generally unwanted advice, and freely pepper your fiction, historical or other, with 'rape and adverbs'. Or adverbs, at least.

[link] [reply]

Oh, very nicely done. A deliciously creamy crop of adverbs there. *joins you in sticking it to Leonard*

[link] [parent] [reply]

Adverbs are description in action.

I rest my case.

(Note: I discovered this while doing my narratological analysis of fanfic which will be posted soon if I ever manage to finish it. It's over 20 pages long and not finished!)

Cordially,

L.

[link] [reply]

I knew this would draw you in. :)

I can't even think of any adverbs now.

[link] [parent] [reply]

I think adverbs should be left alone. They are not used very often and there is a good reason for it. Leave them alone I say what harm did they ever do to you? Isn't it bad enough they exist and you lot want to put injury on insult and use them and not one person at a time but all at the same time and you even encourage each other I think it's sick and the government should do something about it. You probably feel really good about yourself and you all think I don't know what adverbs are well I'm sorry to disappoint you I know exactly what they are I just don't understand it, that's all. Tonde

[link] [reply]

Adverb's what? You're implying possession, you know. And possession is nine-tenths of the law. I therefore declare, stoutly, that adverbs are mine to use and abuse, and don't no one be trying to stop me, no siree!

[link] [parent] [reply]