The road to hell is paved with adverbs!

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[h=2]The Adverb Is Not Your Friend: Stephen King on Simplicity of Style[/h]“Employ a simple and straightforward style,” Mark Twain instructed in the 18th of his 18 famous literary admonitions. And what greater enemy of simplicity and straightforwardness than the adverb? Or so argues Stephen King in On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/13/stephen-king-on-adverbs/

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