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249-Powerful-Verbs-Jerry-Jenkins.pdfAdd Active Verbs to your draft!
Add Active Verbs to your draft!
Here is a list of some strong active verbs that could be good additions to any piece of writing!
And here is a website with some additional ideas for active verbs!!
Add Adjectives to your draft!
Add Adjectives to your draft!
Here is a list of some strong adjectives that could be good additions to any piece of writing!
quality_adjectives_cheat_sheet.pdfAnd here is a website with some additional ideas for good adjectives!!
Don't forget to vary the sentence lengths!
Don't forget to vary the sentence lengths!
The more you mix up the sentence lengths, the easier it is on your reader/listener's ear!
Get rid of your empty modifiers!
Get rid of your empty modifiers!
Here are the Top 9 empty modifiers:
Really
Very
Totally
Incredibly
Absolutely
Extremely
Just
Quite
Mostly
The problem with these modifiers is that they are filler words - they don't MEAN anything. You can always replace them with more vivid adjectives!
Examples:
She was
very beautiful.She was gorgeous.
My old math teacher was
totally annoying.My old math teacher was more obnoxious than a hoard of buzzing mosquitoes.
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