Kate Kiefer at Forbes.com wrote a piece on the advice Mark Twain gave to writers.
Words like “really” and “very” are rarely useful. Twain famously said to “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.” I think of him every time I type—and then delete—the word “very.”
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/katelee/2012/11/30/mark-twain-on-writing-kill-your-adjectives/
