Instead of filling your copy with adverbs, try looking for more descriptive verbs. Found in my email this morning: Writing advice from Samuel Langhorne Clemens - otherwise known as Mark Twain. If people lived that long, he would have been 188 years old today.And as much as things change, they also stay the same. Mark Twain's quotes are always wise, and this one is no exception: “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” If you don't have an editor to hold you down, just restrain yourself! Instead of filling your copy with adverbs, try looking for more descriptive verbs. marte@copybymarte.comwww.copybymarte.com Priest River, Idaho208-448-1479 Call on Copy by Marte for: Custom Web Copy....A...
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