oracne - Victoria Janssen (oracne) wrote,
oracne - Victoria Janssen
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Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here

A quick and dirty way to slice word count in a story is to remove all the adverbs that aren't integral to sentences making sense.
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