quick poll

[aruan]

Despite reading a lot of good fic in this lovely fandom vast and wide, I blame a combination of journalism and poor nutrition on my inability to feel anything for this story I'm writing and want so desperately to be good.

So, as brief or as detailed as you please, what's the single best writing tip anyone's ever taught you/you've divined/gotten from a fortune cookie? Though maybe not that cookie thing, those aren't usually well-written.

At the moment, I'm going line-by-line and remembering to show, not tell.

Comments

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

They pretty well beat modifiers out of me in journalism school, but yeah, that's a rule I of the effusive run-on sentences that are more like bursts of emotion than coherent thought would do well to remember. I love that even if we took out all of the adverbs in English, we'd still be able to express ourselves without losing a lick of nuance. Strong verbs, strong verbs, strong verbs...