Avoid the Adverb April 2016 in #Proseject!

Hey everyone . I hope your March was wonderful and Easter eggcellent .



I hope you laughed and cried and ate far too much chocolate . Because today, I bring you another challenge we've never seen before. 


Avoid the Adverb April is exactly as it sounds. We will be using a fantastic adverb finder website to annihilate the adverbs in our pieces. Why? Because we can. 



As most of us know, adverbs are verb descriptors, and they allow you to convey how an act was performed. Many prose critics argue that too many adverbs (and adjectives for that matter) can clutter and over-embellish a story. They urge beginning and intermediate writers to use adverbs sparingly. In the place of overusing adverbs, they recommend stronger nouns and verbs to allow for punchier and more specific descriptions.





E.g. "The tiny brown bird flew gently across the room" if condensed this can become
"The sparrow fluttered across the room" without losing any meaning or imagery. I am aware that I condensed both adjectives and adverbs but you get the gist. 
   



I thought it could be fun to personally analyse how often we each utilize this specific form of speech and thus this challenge was born.

For the purpose of this exercise, we will be removing and rewriting out all adverbs in our pieces. This isn't a war on descriptors, but an excuse to understand how we write and how we can use stronger verbs instead.



Here is how this will roll:



1. Write a piece with minimum wordcount of 600 words.

2. Copy and paste it into the adverb finder provided here: Adverb Detector

3. Rewrite to eliminate adverbs found.

4. Post it!

5. Link this journal in the author's comments and submit it to our Avoid the Adverb folder. 

6. Revel in your awesome.