Group Discussion Lesson Five

DISCUSSION TOPIC
In your writing, how much do you rely on the use of adverbs and adjectives rather than searching for specific nouns and verbs?

In my writing I think I have used adverbs and adjectives rather than trying to search for specific nouns and verbs.  I do like to use the feature on the spell-check, which finds synonyms for the words I want to be different but say the same thing.  Doing the synonyms gives my writing a lot of variety it normally would not get.  I like to use adverbs and adjectives because it adds spice to what I am working on.

This lesson five is nice because it is full of good suggestions how to use modifiers to do a work of magic when I write.  I understand just through reading the lesson how modifiers need to be words that do not make a redundant remark with the word it is modifying.  I need to go back over my stories and see if I have misused modifiers.  I can also understand how using too many adverbs or adjectives will spoil a story.  Too many modifiers will make a story hard to read and wordy to the point of boredom.

Using the right amount of adverbs and adjectives spruce up a story and give information it needs to read the extra mile, to use a familiar saying.  I really enjoyed working on this lesson. It was more like a creative writing class.