[stylist] Story of hoodlums/word limit

[LoriStay at aol.com]

Quite right.   And all adverbs that weaken the verbs too.
Lori
In a message dated 1/10/11 4:37:04 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:


> There's a lot that's difficult about being a novelist.  If only a 
> publisher
> would buy a book that started out with, "Once upon a time" and ended with,
> "And they all lived happily ever after."  The in between space could be
> dedicated to sleeping.  But that's not being a novelist.  Lori had the 
> best
> advice for cutting down the word count in a story.  Lori, correct me if 
> I'm
> wrong, but she advised taking out everything that didn't advance the plot.
> Judith
>