LogFAQs > #910722695

You want a good balance, and that balance tends to be in favor of said by about 80/20. Nothing wrong with with using words like shout or whisper, but when you say stuff like so-and-so proclaimed, youre replacing an invisible word (said) with a jarring word that doesnt change the meaning at all.

Same with adverbs. Theyre fine to use, but they need to be severely limited or else you fall into the trap of saying people did things in an -ly manner, instead of actually describing how they did it. This all falls into show dont tell, with the dialogue descriptors being mostly useless since the actual dialogue and context of it is supposed to allow you to know how someones speaking.

The editors Ive worked with hacked my early works apart before I could learn this. Theres a reason you dont see writing like that outside of self-publishers and erotica authors, its just not palatable to modern sensibilities.
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