So, let's take a look at writing quotes and see if they ring true to you.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs Stephen King
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
Science Fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple; tell the damned story. Tom Clancy
Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne
And from my favorite source, Mark Twain:
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
(On a particularly long letter he had written) "If I had more time, it would have been shorter."
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very." Your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.