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⚔️ Amazing Ad-words

Five ways to strut your style with audacious adjectives and vividly varied adverbs

Sharpen your style and find joy in wordcraft with bestselling writing expert Helen Sword.

Dear fellow writer,

Welcome to Swordcraft, my new series of short, sharp weekly videos for writers who want to hone their wordcraft, one snippet at a time.

Today’s 7-minute swordsnip is the fourth in a 6-part series for paid subscribers called The World of Wordcraft, which focuses on nitty-gritty issues of grammar, structure, and style. Today we’re looking at adjectives and adverbs, those delicious descriptive words vilified by some authors and exalted by others.

This 6-week World of Wordcraft sequence is loosely based on my book The Writer’s Diet, so I’m running two free Writer’s Diet Clinics — one this week, one next week — to help you shape up your sentences. Click here to learn more and register.

Want to delve deeper into the world of wordcraft? My 6-week Wordcraft Catalyst course is now in its fourth week, but we’re still welcoming new enrollments You’ll have access to all of the resources for the lifetime of the course (in other words, years!), so there’s plenty of time for you to catch up on what you’ve missed. I’d love to see you there!

Kia pai tō koutou rā (have a great day) – and keep on writing!

Helen

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