This week's Practice exercise ~

Exercise: Missing A's ~

Prepared by: Alice Folkart
Posted on: Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009



Exercise: Write a scene of 400 words or less in which you use no adjectives or adverbs.

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Can you describe a landscape, a person, an interior, a storm, a day in summer, an emotion without using any adjectives? Can you write life in action without adverbs?

Imagine "It was a dark and stormy night" without the adjectives "dark" and "stormy." Maybe, for example: ''That night clouds veiled the moon and we couldn't see the mountain." No adjectives. No adverbs.

Does it take more words, more writing, to transmit visual and emotional images to the reader without adjectives and adverbs?

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These exercises were written by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop.