Invisible Birds

I guess all sentences need to be based on verbs. If you have a good verb, you have a good sentence, and if you have good sentences, you have a good piece. Sentences are to writers as brushstrokes are to artists. They’re your mark, and all work is nothing but an assemblage of made marks. If you have a good verb you will not need any modifiers, ideally. Modifiers should be avoided because they clutter everything up and inevitably drag everything down. Some people believe that avoidance of modifiers inhibits style by forcing an economy of words where they would favor “lush” writing….I’m sorry, but too many adjectives isn’t “lush”, it’s distracting and unnecessary. You don’t want to overdescribe things. When you overspecify every image you end up with a non-image.