Elmore Leonard gives similar advice, summing it up nicely, "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/arts/write

Elmore Leonard gives similar advice, summing it up nicely, "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/arts/writers-writing-easy-adverbs-exclamation-points-especially-hooptedoodle.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/arts/writers-writing-easy...