As I learn about the modern publishing process I am discovering that adjectives are stripped out of prose like weeds. Whatever happened to the legitimate use of descriptive word crafting? Is the modern novel becoming dry and too simplistic as a result? Are publishers catering to a public that no longer want to work at reading; savouring the technique and quality of the writing itself? Are they rendering the future to a more skeletal functional style? Care to Comment?
Where are you "discovering" this? No adjectives have been stripped out of my writing so far in the publishing process.
I tend to have more flowery prose too, but that just happens when I don't restrict myself. My mind always goes to something more poetic sounding, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Just needs to be controlled - as does a more simplistic style of writing. There's nothing wrong with having a more flowery prose if you can perfect it and make it your own.
Flowery is hard to do, which means that most people do it badly, which means that the majority of published prose is not flowery. Do it well, and there's no problem. Any questions?
I don't think writing anything is ever necessary unless there's a gun to your head. Oooh, i just got another book idea.
*never use adverbs unless they are absolutely necessary according to the specific and undefined ideal to which I write.
I got it, don't worry about that. I just wasn't sure if you were being serious and had deemed it necessary.
When I was writing with a partner (many years ago) we once ran afoul of the word 'angrily.' On the index cards, the character was doing everything angrily and after speaking the word out loud several dozen times while working out kinks in the plot, it really started to sound ludicrous. It was also losing its meaning which, I think, was a by-product of it being an adverb. That's when we decided we had to find another way. But we never did and I believe this was one of the contributing factors to my partner running away to L.A. But at least he didn't do it angrily. (Personally, I think he did it afraidedly, but since that's not a word and we've never discussed it, I can't confirm.)