Adverbs! I have been breaking my head on them. Writers are supposed to avoid them like the plague, but I cant seem to do so. A few do creep in, unpretentiously.
But I have come to a final conclusion. Adverbs can remain, if they really add value to the sentence.
e.g.: There are two adverbs in this post. The first is unpretentiously, which does not add any real value to the sentence, as when I say things creep in, then doesn't that already include the 'unpretentiously'. So, that can be cut off!
However, the 'really' in the next line seems necessary, so it can stay.
One more thing I can do is change things like "He smiled brightly" to "A smile lit up his face." A much better way to write.
PS: I have come up with a background over the weekend. This week will be spent in ironing out anomalies and inconsistencies. Next week I will start worrying about the story and by end of August, I plan to have at least four to five chapters finished.
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