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Chapter 1

A storm had rolled into New York. So far a casual thunderstorm and nothing major.

“Cancel those picnics New Yorkers unless you like soggy sandwiches. We'd also suggest seeking out potential storm shelters if you haven't made plans yet.” The newscaster on Channel 6 news suggested. Donnie scoffed at the tv.

“Storm shelters my shell. We haven't had a tornado in NYC since 1995 and haven't been hit by a hurricane since 1893 unless you count 2021.” The tv went dark the subtle illumination it gave off disappearing. The 3 turtle brothers and their human friends turned to the purple-clad brother, who shrugged in response.

“I've been wrong before.” he started as the generator kicked in bringing the news station back to life.

“Folks were gonna suggest you take shelter as we could be experiencing extreme storms passing over that could potentially lead to severe weather.” the tv switched to live footage of the Atlantic Ocean where the water was raging and crashing along the coast lightning striking anything and everything in its path. An alert went off in the lair signaling that something was happening at the underwater entrance. The team groaned as Donnie rose from his spot on the couch to investigate the cause of the alarm.

When he arrived he turned off the alarm and turned his attention to the cameras. All seemed to be well, but he took a closer look. Only to catch a glimpse of a humanoid figure in the camera that sat above water.

Whoever it was was thrown from the sky into the water lightning following them striking the surface as they submerged. Another figure appeared out of the dark clouds.

“I'm guys you might want to take a look at this,” Donnie suggested to the living room inhabitants who emerged a few seconds later to watch the screen with him.

The figure that fell into the ocean emerged once more surrounded by lightning. The two figures clashed and shockwave went out in all directions the two figures engaged as a much more severe storm began to roll onto the shores of New York. When suddenly the figure surrounded by lightning began to dim. The other figure pulled something out of them and let them crash into the ocean. The figure in the air began to rise once more. Taking off in a burst of speed into the clouds. The storm began to slow and calm down.

“Should we go see what that was,” Mikey questioned they All looked at Leo.

“You're the leader,” Ralph said crossing his arms Leo looked back at the screen.

“Well, I'm going I have to see what this, is,” Donnie said rising from his desk and walking to grab some gear before he made his way over to the turtle sub.

“I'm coming too.” Mikey began to follow in step with his brother. Leo sighed and he to followed suit along with Raph Casey and April. The six of them crammed into the sub and made their way to investigate.

Upon arrival, the turtles saw the humanoid figure sinking deeper and deeper into the ocean in a heap of white fabric a light trail of gold following along.

“Well, we can't just sit here and watch them drown,” April said.

“I'll get them.” raph took the initiative and swam out of the sub over to the figure. Upon closer inc]section he realized it was a girl. Her hair floated around her face tickling his skin as he wrapped his arms around her. He swam back to the sub lifting her inside.

URGENT HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD

Dear humanity,

Please Help Me – My Son May Die at Any Moment.

I'm Amal from Gaza. 🍉

Here’s my story, and I’m reaching out with a hopeful heart 💔✨, hoping someone will feel what my family and I are going through.

My son is suffering from a severe and life-threatening injury after being shot by Israeli drones. He urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

I beg you, i kiss your feet, to help my son. My son may die at any moment

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺 .

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Oh my god, the clarity of his grunts, growls, laughter, hmms, and breathing

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How To Make Your Writing Less Stiff 6

Part 5

Part 1

Adverbs

Gasp! Oh no. Dare come yet more writing advice burning adverbs at the stake? Vindictively, gleefully, manically dancing in the ashes?

No.

This is not about whether or not you should use them, but their frequency and obvious places to replace them. Most bad adverbs are the common ones that could be replaced by verbs we all know.

“She ran quickly” // “She sprinted”

“He said angrily” // “He snapped” “He chided” “He chastised”

vs.

“He ate voraciously”

“She swayed solemnly”

“She laughed sadly”

Bonus if you can add in some alliteration like ‘swayed solemnly’

If you can come up with an obvious verb to replace your verb + adverb combo, do so. If it would take more words or the closest applicable verb doesn’t hit the same vibe, then leave it. Adverbs should enhance the verb, not be redundant. Verbs shouldn’t be pretentious just to avoid them.

“She smiled happily” — most smiles are happy. Happily is redundant.

“He ran quickly” —a run is, by nature, quick

vs.

“She smiled sourly”

“He ran erratically”

Also!

The adverb need not always be after the verb.

“C accepted gladly” // “C gladly accepted”

But also

“Glad, C accepted”

“A shook their head resolutely” // “Resolute, A shook their head”

“The child skipped excitedly away.” // “Excited, the child skipped away.” // “The child skipped away, excited.”

English is flexible like that.

Which is what I mean with managing your adverb frequency. As most end in the -ly, too many in succession, on top of the repeat syntax of Subject - Verb - Adverb looks boring and dull (and so does beginning every sentence with the subject). It helps with your cadence and flow if you don’t have entire paragraphs at a time all starting with “He [verb]” or “She [verb]” or “They [verb].” We don't speak like this in natural conversation.

But at the end of the day, there are some juicy adverbs that have no equal without busting out the thesaurus for some obscure lexical nugget that no one would understand anyway.