When I first sat down in hopes of being a published author, I read the rule to eliminate and avoid all adverbs.
I intensely followed this rule for many years. Beginning in the editing stage of deleting all those ‘-ly’ words to avoiding them completely in the first draft.
(You saw what I did there, right?)
Adverbs are fine.
Like all words, they have a place and a time.
Sometimes a sentence is clear without one. Other times it is clearly needed.
It all comes down to preference. I would still say that it is good advice to use adverbs sparingly. But I believe the key to good writing is creating a good cadence. When a reader reads the sentences, does a particular word reduce the flow (intentionally or not) or maintain it?
That said, it is always good practice to place restrictions on word choice, so that we broaden the kinds of phrases we turn. And it is always good practice to analyze our repetitions.
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