Date: 2014-04-05 06:03 pm (UTC)
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It's this post, from a series of articles by the author of "Fight Club", this one made available on Tumblr: http://cultureprn.tumblr.com/post/9176218270/thought-verbs-by-chuck-palahniuk

It's not the "feelings" themselves but you're not supposed to just say "He felt sad" but give lots more detail. It makes more sense when you read the post, but honestly, trying to "unpack" every single thought/felt/remembered verb is soul destroying.
And I enjoyed the *movie* "Fight Club", and I skimmed some of the author's short stories from another advice post I found elsewhere and they're okay but I can't say I was in love with his style. There was little criticism of the "no thought verbs" post though a couple of people did say that it's adding words for the sake of it, getting bogged down in unnecessary detail.

The same applies to advice on adverbs. To "unpack" - write much more context so the adverb isn't necessary. But I don't think all adverbs are evil so I'm not going to try and eliminate every single one! :D
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