The Short of It
The Power of Strong Verbs
Using verb choice to enliven your creative writing
Published in
4 min readNov 15, 2023
Verbs are the action words of a sentence. The make-things-happen words. The jocks, one might say, of the parts of speech.
In stories, they do everything from orienting a character in space, making them speak, revealing their inner lives, and manifesting the…
