128 Words Screenwriters Can Use Instead of "Very"

Screenwriters require a multitude of descriptive words in their vocabulary in order to best convey the visuals swimming around in their creative mind. It's not about finding overly fancy or elongated versions of otherwise simple words — which would negatively affect the read of your script — rather, it's about avoiding the redundancy of the most go-to adverbs that novice screenwriters fall back on while writing both scene description and dialogue; Very.

Very is most often used for emphasizing that a quality exists or is true to a great degree.

"She's very afraid of ghosts."

"He's a very bad man."

"She's very detailed in her work."

Too many novice screenwriters — and some veteran screenwriters as well — over-use this adverb in their script to a very annoying, or, exasperating degree. What screenwriters forget is that there are so many other options to utilize in their writing.

We found this amazing graphic at Proofreading Services that can give you more options to choose from as you write your scene description and dialogue.