#WordWeavers 4. Is there writing advice you used to follow but changed your mind?
I also did the no adverbs thing - but it just isn't me - I love a sparingly used adverb! The other thing was the 'said is dead' advice about dialogue tags. I don't agree! Said is almost always the best tag to use - invisible, unobtrusive. The reader glides past it, without being distracted by tags such as expounded, explained, all those perfectly okay verbs that ruin the reading process by being so loud and proud.
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