I've said this before, but please, please, please edit out your adverbs!
Adverbs are useless things that add no value to writing. They slow and frustrate the reader and are lifeless.
I read a ms for assessment recently [forgive me for that one] and one page of text [272 words] had 12 adverbs - one for every 22.5 words!
Most of these words were used in cliches or to describe how a character said something ie swiftly tetchily lightly casually blankly quickly cheekily firmly uselessly ominously helplessly frantically etc.
Please, as a reader I beg you, please be responsible with your editing and cut and cull as many as you can - one adverb per 2,000 words is a good ratio!!
Jennifer
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