http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/13082/the-art-of-the-sentence-leslie-maslow.html Home of the magazine, the books, and the conference Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/13082/the-art-of-the-sentence-leslie-maslow.html#comment-7383 Mike Lindgren Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:25:13 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=13082#comment-7383 1. What a lovely choice and analysis. The adverb is indeed a knockout punch. 2. I tend to think that Fitzgerald's bias against the adjective, and Hemingway's corollary bias against all sorts of decorative language, have been ingrained into our understanding of how fictional language works to a harmful degree. There is nothing inherently inferior about adjectives and adverbs, provided they are well-used. 1. What a lovely choice and analysis. The adverb is indeed a knockout punch.
2. I tend to think that Fitzgerald’s bias against the adjective, and Hemingway’s corollary bias against all sorts of decorative language, have been ingrained into our understanding of how fictional language works to a harmful degree. There is nothing inherently inferior about adjectives and adverbs, provided they are well-used.

]]> http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/13082/the-art-of-the-sentence-leslie-maslow.html#comment-6829 Rick Rofihe Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:35:41 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=13082#comment-6829 F. Scott Fitzgerald said somewhere that it was best when writing to avoid the use of adjectives, and that as an ideal (which he admitted he did not possess the skill to attain) an adjectival description should never be employed when, even if it took extraordinary effort on the writer's part, an adverbial one was obtainable. F. Scott Fitzgerald said somewhere that it was best when writing to avoid the use of adjectives, and that as an ideal (which he admitted he did not possess the skill to attain) an adjectival description should never be employed when, even if it took extraordinary effort on the writer’s part, an adverbial one was obtainable.

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