Riters_R_Us

So, here's a link to my journal where I made a post whining about a story I'd read that contained waaaaay too many adjectives (some used much too often) and waaaaay too many adverbs, often used inappropriately. The ensuing discussion contains a lot of good stuff, including writing suggestions and advice from some good writers. Rather than copy my words here, and have you miss the discussion stuff, I'm just going to link you to it. If you're an author, you may pick up something you should know that you've not though about before, and if you're a beta (as it seems fewer and fewer people are, BTW. I would really like to have a working list of people who are willing to beta, so I can pass the names on new authors) you will have something to which you can refer your author if/when she argues with you.

I'm serious about the beta stuff. Please take a look at the beta list on here and update, delete your profile, or add yourself if you aren't on it but would like to be.