I'm re-reading Stephen King's "On Writing" right now and he dedicates some of the initial portions of his advice section to anti-adverb rants. "The adverb is no

I'm re-reading Stephen King's "On Writing" right now and he dedicates some of the initial portions of his advice section to anti-adverb rants. "The adverb is not your friend." I catch myself using them more often than I should. His take is that the context around whatever statement you've inserted an adverb into should already tell the story that adverb was inserted to tell.