Adjectives and adverbs can make or break a manuscript, pitch or synopsis. 

Hint: My best friend while writing?  My Thesaurus!!!  Awesome site:  wwww.Thesaurus.com!!!

Search for not-so-interesting (blah) words like:

bad, hard

good, nice

small, little

large, big, huge

scary, scared, afraid, concerned

new, old

mean, mad

slowly, quietly

happy, sad, sorry

soft(ly), quiet(ly

nervous, shy

mysterious, confused

pretty, beautiful, ugly

slow, fast

You get the picture! (see my previous post on 'List of Weak Words' for 'blah' verbs to look for and change!)

(HINT: Use the find feature in Word, and hightlight all of the above words, then work through your writing to change the highlighted words to more 'sparkly' words (see below, use a thesaurus!).  When done improving your work, do a 'select all' and highlight it all, then un-highlight it all. That way, you don't have to go through twenty times and do a 'find' for each word.)

Instead, use jazzy / sparkly words:

scrawny, gangly, robust

yummy, sumptuous, scrumptuous

chilling, desolate, ghoulish, dreadful, fiendish, eerie, putrid, haunting, ferocious, horrendous

gorgeous, glorious, precious

spellbound, cryptic, arcane

animated, salacious, sprited, vivacious, zestful, distressed

jittery, apprehensive, agitated, overwrought, timorous, hysterical

despair, forlorn, morose, heartbroken, somber, wistful, despondent, languishing

captivated, delighted, thrilled, blissful, gratified

esoteric, inexplicable, obscure, mystical, incomprehensible, symbolic, unfathomable

murmuring, soundlessly, tacitly, faintly

alluring, bewitching, dazzling, angelic, radiant, stunning

appalling, grotesque, hideous, repulsive, repugnant, revolting

delirious, demented, deranged, frantic, frenzied, ludicrous, preposterous

and of course, sparkly!!!

Again, you get the picture!  Remember: www.thesaurus.com!!!!

Print this off and save it for when you are editing or writing - especially the ever-important pitch!!!

Please share your blah words and your jazzy words with us!!!  Any other helpful hints?  Cheers!! Jan