Author Goes AWOL
March 14, 2011
Well, it’s been one of those weeks where you look back and think – how on earth did I fit that all in? Thank goodness for a public holiday on Monday, is all I can say.
Had a fabulous time in Sydney at the Northern Sydney Region Teacher Librarian Conference in Terry Hills talking everything e-books. During question time there was a question posed by one librarian – ‘where have all the adverbs gone?’ which I shall endeavor to address in a later post.
Sunday looms and I have a full class of students for the first Year of Writing for Children day for the Victorian Writers Centre. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone and getting a bit of writing done, so hopefully they are ready to write in class.
Meanwhile my visit to All Saints Lit Fest in April is fast approaching…
Where have all the adverbs gone? I got rid of three out of a blurb I was writing the other day: tremulously, falteringly, dangerously. The world was not a worse place for losing them, and my blurb was infinitely (!) better.
I read somewhere just recently that if you need an adverb it's because your verb wasn't strong enough in the first place – words to that effect anyway. You always do good blurbage Ms Alison!
"Where have all the adverbs gone, long time passing." and not soon enough. I am looking forward to your later post on the topic.
Ali, do expunge those evil adverbs!
Hey AK – very nice Peter Paul and Mary rendition.