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“The Road to Hell is Paved With Adverbs” – Stephen King – What do the numbers say?

Originally posted on Author Don Massenzio:
As writers, we are constantly (adverb) told about the misstep of using too many adverbs in our writing. I recently received the book Nabakov’s Favorite Word is Mauve, by Ben Blatt which has the first attempt to quanitfy adverb usage by authors recognized as the masters of the craft that…