"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." --Mark Twain.
Nobody deletes "damn" anymore. I suppose you'd have to use "fucking" now, to have a chance of getting it deleted, and even then.
Writing Advice That Has Not Gone Out of Date
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are." --W. Somerset Maugham.
This could be taken for a rule:
"The trick is to begin suddenly, like plunging into an icy sea and bearing its intense coldness with suicidal courage." Clarice Lispector
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