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Adverbs = Bad Writing?
2 min readFeb 26, 2021
A seemingly innocuous Steven King quote provokes online controversy.
Ever since I joined Twitter over a decade ago, I schedule two writing quote tweets per night: one on writing, one on screenwriting. They are culled from the hundreds of quotes I have aggregated over the years which you can see here and here.
The other night, I tweeted this:
That sparked quite a few responses such as:
