Random Bookshelf Reading 38
Question: Today?
Answer: "Verb Make your verbs alive. They carry the energy of a sentence. Check you use of "to be." Can you use another, more dynamic verb instead? "I was on my bike and rode to the store." How about, "I pedaled my bike to the grocer." You can feel the pumping going on. Fewer words, even more economical." (p.95)
From Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg.
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