Rowling the Adverbial

Periodically, an admonition against adverbs makes the rounds of LJ and creative writing coursebooks. As anyone who is vaguely familiar with my own LJ knows, I myself, on the other hand, am normally a stout defendrix of the much-maligned adverb.

However, JKR's use thereof may be too much even for me, amazingly but perhapsly not surprisingly:

( Adverbs in Order of the Phoenix )

( My comments thereon )

Really, truly and verily, it is such prose which gives the adverb its bad name!

But for news of deliciously used adverbs, keep watching this space. ;-)

ETA: Here, for example. (For delicious adverbs, scroll to Nabokov.)

ETA: Nobodydoes it betterthan sheldrake. Her remix of JKR!

Portrait GIP!

Inspired by natasha1805, lazlet, sheldrake, blythely and the entire rest of LJ-land, and courtesy of The Portrait Maker.

Or, as I have preferred to use it: The Dream Man Maker.

I may be in love.

delicious adverbs

I promised I would report on delicious adverbs and lo! No sooner noted than they were brought to me by my lovely Friends list.

thamiris posted a snippet from Nabokov and its adverbs make me shiver. Now that is the way to write an adverb!