Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes
Years ago I bought Stephen King's On Writing and it looks like he echoes a lot of its points here.<p>Missing is his hatred of adverbs; To King's mind "He screamed angrily" is a terrible sentence because it uses the -ly construction to say what should be clear in context. So with precious few exceptions he scraps all the -ly's and lets his characters' actions do the talking.