This is a YouTube video titled "Stop using adverbs." containing a monologue or talk focused on writing advice, specifically about avoiding adverbs to make writing more declarative and effective. The speaker references Hemingway's writing style and shares personal editing habits. There is only one speaker, and no indication that Nicolas Cole is involved.
Delete adverbs. This was one of Hemingway's favorite writing rules. Adverbs are usually unnecessary. They're used for description. The reality is they make your writing less declarative. And something, you know, Hemingway was a great example of this great writing is declarative. And so when you have words like excitedly or delicately or finely or carefully or subtly, yes, you're adding a little bit of description, but in another sense, you're reducing the declarative nature of that sense. And I find that most great writing uses very few adverbs. In your first draft or when you're writing something the first time, it's okay, you're gonna talk that way, you're gonna write that way. But one of the things that I tend to edit for whenever I'm going back through something is I'm always looking for the adverbs. And most of the time, my first impulse is, oh, I need that adverb. And then when I sit with it for three seconds, I go, oh, I don't actually need that adverb.
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