Discussion
#WritersCoffeeClub 10/21. What is your take on the adverb debate?
The debate is nonsensical, in my chosen paddling-pool of fiction, SF/F, where every novelist redefines the meaning of the entire English language in the course of writing each story (per editor Teresa Neilsen Hayden).
(Things are very different in other areas of writing. I wouldn't have dreamed of over-using adverbs in a software manual or magazine article, back when I was writing them for a living.)
@cstross Teresa Nielsen Hayden. She gets snippy if you spell her wrong... (at least you didn't add a spurious hyphen)
@klepsydra Aaagh I blame this con crud I came home with. (Not COVID; at least I'm testing negative and lack the current symptom set.)
@cstross I am not an author, although I'm a fan of you work. I have absolutely nothing to offer you other than my thanks for drawing our attention to this issue.
Due to your prompt, I've found a few fascinating articles describing various, and somewhat adamant, positions on this issue.
@scottjenson It's not my prompt, it's a daily prompt from the hashtag #WritersCoffeeClub (which you should follow).
@cstross Charlie, I just stumbled across this hashtag in past couple of days. Is there someone specific who publishes the daily prompt? Are the rules of engagement I should look up? Or do I just hashtag and jump in the deep end?
@SteveJB Use the hashtag and jump right in! (Yes, there's a small group who run it: they work out each month's daily prompts in advance.)
@cstross In science education, I often have to edit down my writing to fit within word counts. Most of the adverbs get deleted. Conciseness is a major part of the game.
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