so here's a quick tip for you the difference between really great writing and average writing is always and how the writer uses verbs yeah okay so just you know go back to you know fourth grade verbs are action words well yeah they are they are the amplifiers of language and the wattage that your verbs have wattage that your verbs have verbs have yeah I have is right wattage that your verbs have is a the thing that drives everything else nouns just lay their adjectives lay on top of them verbs Electrify them and kick them into action so that if you look at your verbs and start rating your verbs in terms of their RMS how many watts do they have up to 200 200 is the ampeg v4 amplifier you know the ones that when you pick them up they make your arms longer and that's all you really need is an MPEG v4 so one to 200 take a look at the forms of the verb to be I was a good boy well was there you are at a half a watt and then you you know you just go ahead and figure out what your verbs are and then you start circling them and you say how can i boost the wattage on that so if we take a look at just a couple of lines say from our from Robert Frost his poem putting in the seed you come fetch me from work when suppers on the table and we'll see if I can leave off burying the white soft petals fallen from the apple tree what white petals yes but not so bare and quite mingled with these smooth being and wrinkled pea and go along with you before you become like me slave to springtime passion for the earth how love burns through the pudding in the seed and on through that early birth when just as the soil tarnishes with weed the is a sturdy seedling with arched body comes shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs soil tarnishes there's a verb tarnishes with weed what tarnishes now we're like when you're in metaphor territory here what tarnishes well precious metals tarnish so that the soil because tarnish has been applied to it the soil is a precious metal and the weed that comes up before the seed seedlings do becomes the tarnish so just as the soil tarnishes with weed the sturdy seedling with arched body comes shouldering its way and there's that very very fragile little plant but frost is talking about the power of life and so there is his verb shouldering which again contains a metaphor what has shoulders its way into existence well human babies do and so what's this thing about putting in the seed now oh ok really uh-huh and so the shouldering now takes it beyond itself and I suppose it tarnishes and shouldering are probably about 170 180 watts and that's what makes the writing brilliant so I would just say to you if you want to be a better writer tonight start noticing your verbs and I don't know uses the Czar's use the Roget's international thesaurus and which isolates all the verbs take a look and see what you can find you don't want to get into the territory of the canine perambulated the thoroughfare you know that's not where you want to go but you do want to make sure that whatever circuitry you're building in your sentences that the verbs get maximum efficiency out of your nouns in your adjectives and you will find that if your verbs are strong enough you're not going to be using many adjectives because note that while the great writer depends on verbs in order to create a wonderful description the average writer creates strings of adjectives and usually relatively weak verbs which makes the writing a writing field written and feels that it makes it feel average so verbs verbs verbs okay you