Seriously, What’s So Bad About Adverbs?
Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It’s terribly, awfully, horrendously important. But why? Really, adverbs aren’t bad in themselves. They’re a part of speech, fundamentally no different than any other. Basically, an adverb modifies a verb or adjective to tell you how someone…
