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Rant: My writing group in Denver told me to cut every adverb from my prompts, and I just sold a story built on 6 "suddenlys"
Two months ago Karen from my Tuesday critique circle crossed out all twelve of my adverbs in red pen and swore the prompt would land harder without them, but I tried her way for three drafts and every scene read like a grocery list, so I went back to my sloppy lyrical version and it got picked up by a lit mag in Boulder on Friday, so now I honestly can't tell if her rule was right for everyone or just wrong for me, has anyone else had a crit partner's one big rule totally backfire?
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gonzalez.grant4d ago
Watched a buddy gut his whole voice for a crit partner's rule and quit writing.
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