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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9609867" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Sure, adverbs exist and have their place. In bad writing, for example.I jest, but only in part. In teaching creative writing, adverbs are my bane, because 9 times out of 10 they aren't used because they are the best choice, they are used because they are the easy choice. There is almost always a more muscular verb that conveys a precise idea a lot better than just putting the word "very" in front of a more prosaic choice.That's obviously not a hard rule; there are very few hard rules in language. But that one is generally good advice that you will get from almost every writer and writing teacher.Lovecraft and Howard are both very amateurish writers. Again, I write that as a fan (a fan of their work, at least). I don't see why defending their writing skill when they are both obviously limited and inexperienced is a hill to die on - to me it feels like defending the Sex Pistols as great musicians when that obviously wasn't the point of the band.</blockquote>