In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King (no relation) warns that “the road to Hell is paved with adverbs” (118), based on the idea that a more precise verb, or the more careful context of what is conveyed in scene, makes most adverbs an annoying tick of timid, lazy writing.
Here are some examples to strenuously avoid:
Suddenly
Simperingly
Hurriedly
Killingly
Mistily
Blatantly
Condescendingly
Ickily
Moistly
Hopefully
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John King (Episode, well, all of them) is a podcaster, writer, and ferret wrangler. Some of his facebook friends (Rob Davison, Demtri Kakmi, Brooke Lewis, Will Garland, Cate McGowan, Helena-Ann J. Hill, & Lisa Clare Roney) helped him mightily with this list.
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In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet Scott Bailey, whose work is newly banned in South Korea…
Scott Bailey and Raquel Obando.
plus Chad W. Lutz writes about Stephen King’s novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.”
TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES
The music accompanying Chad W. Lutz’s essay was “Crater” by The Spanish Donkey.
Ginger Lee McDermott as Molly in Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog (Photo by Tony Firriolo).
Check out Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog, playing at Orlando Shakespeare Theater through May 5th.
Episode 56 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s show, I talk to the essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman,
Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher’s Nice Guys Finish Last.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
NOTES
On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando.
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When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn’t dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman’s article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears’s anatomy at the time.
On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:
Debbie Gibson
Led Zeppelin
For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don’t this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.
According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.
According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.
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This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of
plus Astrid Cook writes about Stephen King’s The Stand.
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On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Steve Davenport,
Joe Conley plums Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God,
Plus I answer some mail…
Texts Discussed:
Notes:
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.
Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.
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