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sirbruce · 04-06-2009, 04:24 PM

All writers will present you a list of rules... and then break them. Most writing is about knowing when to break the rules and when not to. So adverbs are fine; it's just that most beginning writers overuse them, so they're warned away from them.

04-06-2009, 04:24 PM	#4
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	All writers will present you a list of rules... and then break them. Most writing is about knowing when to break the rules and when not to. So adverbs are fine; it's just that most beginning writers overuse them, so they're warned away from them.