Hee. I've heard similar advice about the superfluousness of "very." Advice I tend to ignore, not because I disagree with it, but because I'm too lazy.

Something I'm trying to pay more attention to: overuse of adverbs. Stephen King says they're "cheating," which I don't strictly (heh) agree with, but he does have a point that many times a piece of writing is better served by taking the extra effort to get something across without using an adverb.

I tend to purposely ignore the rule about ending a sentence with a preposition. But, again, that's more out of laziness. And due to my time spent in popslash I've learned the literary merits of selective capitalization, or the use of the period not as the end of a sentence, but as something stronger than a comma. Er. You may have to read them to get what I'm talking about. Hm. I know there's grammar "rule" that I just vehemently disagree with that I cannot think of at the moment. I'll let you know if I do.