Harry/Draco Writing Support

We're starting a new feature where we'll be posting about different elements of writing a few times per month, give or take. We're starting this feature with a post on adverbs.

Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies For Every Writer and writing teacher, tells us adverbiage (the excessive use of adverbs) reflects the style of an immature writer.

( || WHAT IS AN ADVERB ? || )

( || EXAMPLES OF ADVERB USAGE || )

( || STRENGTHENING VERB-ADVERB COMBINATIONS || )

( || AN HONORABLE MENTION: ADJECTIVES || )

( || ADVERB USAGE IN FAN FIC (AN EXAMPLE) || )

( || BEFORE THE EDIT: 67 ADVERBS || )

( || AFTER THE EDIT: 3 ADVERBS || )

( || 4 EXERCISES FOR GAUGING ADVERB USAGE || )

As always, feedback and discussion is welcome!

I'll note for the record that our own JKR is an adverb freak! Pick up any book from the series and flip through it -- see how many adverbs you find, particularly at the end of dialogue ("Harry said irritatedly" "Hermione said timidly" "Ron said loudly")