Showing vs. Telling Part 2: Adverbs

You might have heard that adverbs are bad. Stephan King makes his distaste of them clear in his memoir, On Writing, and tools like ProWritingAid and HemingwayApp are quick to point out how many adverbs we're using, along with suggestions on what our maximums should be.

But what does the writing world have against adverbs? does the "ly" sound offend people?

If we go back to my original definition of showing and telling, things become clearer:

Showing is something you can see in your mind's eye. U...