Can JKR write dialogue? Her use of "Swifities" says "No."

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 82771

akh wrote:
> After reading Stephen King's review of OOP, in which he noted  
> the "excessive" use of adverbs, I reread OOP and then embarked on 
> another read of the earlier books.  I saw considerably less of the 
> modifiers in the earlier books, so she must have relied more 
> heavily on them in OOP than in the past.
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There has been some buzz over the years that Stephen King's work got 
unwieldy as his success grew, as his publisher(s) stopped trying to 
edit him. Since I think that OoP could have used tightening, and you 
are saying that OoP has more adverbs than the earlier books, I'm 
wondering the same thing about JKR now. I also wonder if it's a case 
at all of author(s) resisting editing, or if it's merely the 
publisher staring at the best seller list in happy disbelief and 
saying, "The public isn't even going to notice a few hundred adverbs 
and a hundred or so unnecessary pages, so why bother?" (It may be 
time and effort they just decide not to "waste." Too bad, in my 
opinion, and I mostly <g> *like* adverbs.)

Sandy