Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It’s terribly, awfully, horrendously important. But why? Really, ...

Adverbs are great, right? They let you describe how an action went down — whether it was walking quickly or sleeping soundly or yelling loudly. But if adverbs are so great, why do editors like ...

Remarkable studies also go in Nature. And the papers that had the most adverbs? Saunders has a list: Certainly, non-academic writers are certainly guilty of adverb love, too. But writers have ...

I don’t use adverbs. I try to make the verb do the work.” As someone who spends her days fixing bad writing, I can tell you there’s gold in those words, especially the part about adverbs.