A verb avalanche is a highly engaging description that causes you to see, hear, and feel action all around you. You dodge each tumbling word-boulder only to leap, jump, roll, and scramble to dodge the mountainside of word-boulders that follow close behind it. causes, see, hear, feel, dodge, tumbling, leap, jump, roll, scramble, dodge, follow
That example included 12 verbs among 43 total words. Roughly 1 in every 3 1/2 words was a verb.
Verb avalanches are built from verbs: action words.
“Thorin stepped up and drew the key on its chain from round his neck. He put it to the hole. It fitted and it turned! Snap! The gleam went out, the sun sank, the moon was gone, and evening sprang into the sky.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit,…
