Some adjectives and adverbs have become meaningless through literary overuse. Great seldom carries the weight it ought to carry. Suddenly seldom means anything at all; it’s a mere transition device, a noise—“He was walking down the street. Suddenly he saw her.” Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn’t want to bother thinking out the story—“Somehow she just knew . . .” “Somehow they made it to the asteroid.” Nothing in your story happens “somehow.” It happens because you wrote it. Take responsibility!
