The Verb at Hay Festival: How to write a Novel
The Verb
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The Queen of Adverbs
The adverb has been neglected in recent years. I love the way your prose moves us along. The prose really, not gallops, but we can't it along. We're always moving along. And I do think you are the Queen of Adverbs. They're an effective way into how a character might be thinking - aren't they? It's Raymond Chandra or someone like that says you should never use one,. That they interrupt and that they're sort of stagey.
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