Sunday, April 6, 2008

Words By Which To Live

For all of us would-be writers:

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs." - Stephen King

7 comments:

Eternal Apprentice said...

The Hemingway-ization of American literature.

Not that that's a bad thing...

Keba said...

{{shudder}}

Old Man and the Sea still gives me nightmares.

Eternal Apprentice said...

Anyway, don't you think that would read better if it said it were 'painstakingly paved'?

chris j pluger said...

alliterated adverbs??

Ay, carumba.

Eternal Apprentice said...

I have an alliteration addiction.

Keba said...

Don't they have meds for that nowadays?

Or if not, maybe we could come up with something. I know - Cuba libres!

Eternal Apprentice said...

Twelve steps and then I get a free tote bag!