I have to wonder how many great books would never exist if everyone followed #1. #2 probably makes sense, but #3 was weird and puts too many limits on the words you got in your story. #4 is really restricting and makes you see how very important adverbs can be. And with #5, this is writing, not football.
ETA: "Never" and "always" are adverbs. Mr. Stine should have removed them.
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud
