2008 | San Diego
A friend has worked in writing seminars with Jack Grapes and describes him as a rigorous instructor by everyone’s account. Grapes threatens to charge his students $5.00 for each adverb that they use in their submissions. (If it’s not just the right verb, no number of modifiers will solve the problem.)
For me, color often adds adverbs and adjectives, taking over the conversation, explaining with too much information, adding no meaning.
* Run your mouse over the picture to swap color for monochrome.
** Touch-screen users can just touch the picture to swap, then touch again in the white space to revert.
***My friend’s anecdote corrected, June 24, 2020