Happy July to All Writers! Hop on the Insecure Writers Support Group train HERE . How is your writing? Mine has grown less and less frequent over the years. But I AM still writing! I'm excited about my romantic suspense WIP--it's just that my day job has grown in scope and I don't write if I travel on the weekends. As I write this post, I'm in Nashville, visiting a good friend who moved here recently. We cooked quite a few dishes for his brother's July 4th party, including spicy grits, pimento dip, banana pudding, spiked lemonade, and red velvet brownie stars . IWSG Question: What is one valuable lesson you've learned since you started writing? I could fill pages with all I've learned since I started writing ten years ago, but I'll narrow it down to this: Use punchy action verbs instead of adverbs. Instead of Joe ran quickly ... Joe dashed . Instead of She looked frantically through her purse ... She rummaged through her purse....