In my original post, I said:“Avoid adverbs” is a common advice in MFA programs, undergrad composition classes, and commercial fiction writing guides. A quick google turns up articles like “Adverbs: The Death of Good Fiction Writing,” “Writing Tips: Abolish the Adverbs,” and “Stephen King on Writing, Fear, and the Atrocity of Adverbs.” (“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops,” Stephen King says in his memoir On Writing.) I go on to argue that when people say “avoid adverbs” they usually mean a specific class of -ly adverbs. And then I saw this rebuttal:I hope these two writers don’t mind my riffing on their comments, because I think both are… correct. He didn’t drop those adverbs unthinkingly, with the fingers reflexively hitting “happily” after “smiled.”Use any and all adverbs if they work for you.