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Nouns vs adjectives

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I'm a nouns guy. I grew up in the newprint business. The news magazine I worked for was heavy on the nouns. They didn't want to hear about the pasty hue of Nixon's visage -- the editors only wanted to hear about his breakdown with Kissinger.

As a result, I don't believe in adjectives. Those are the little words that describe things, as opposed to merely telling what they are. Those adjectives makes stories more interesting to the reader, but make are newspaper article less acceptable.

Now I find myself having to find more THINGS to describe because I can't put enough words on paper -- or in pixels -- to write a decent story.

I recently read a story where the author spent paragraphs and paragraphs to recount in detail an event that I would probably have described thus: "he drove his whatsis into her whosis and they did it for x-teen minutes."

Personally, I think that 7 'graphs to talk about that single event of attempted procreation is overkill. And when it happened again in the next chapter and the next and the next, I found myself skipping over all the extra verbiage. But boiling it down to 14 words doesn't cut it.

Maybe there's something in the middle. Who knows?

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