There's something to be said for taking writing advice you don't necessarily agree with, just to compare your style to the style of someone else. I read Stephen King's On Writing all the way through back when I still liked his work, and he had a lot to say about excessive use of adverbs detracting from your story.
To be honest, I think this advice is kind of really stupid, though maybe it's less to do with King and more to do with my father parroting it, and taking it to the logical extreme of insisting on little to no adverb use at all in writing. He would give me a LOT of shit for it with anything of mine he ever read, most of which was school essays—which, okay, that advice does work there because English teachers are assholes about word usage and I DID have a string of them who would specifically take points away for using too many adverbs. One of them was my mom because I was home-schooled through my teenage years.
Anyway this advice is dumb. For academic writing it makes sense, because the goal there is not to be conversational in tone, but for writing prose? Come on, you should use at least a fucking couple. Live a little. Your story isn't gonna shrivel up and die because you put in a couple of adverbs here and there. Same thing for semicolons, learn how to use them and then just use them as much as your greasy little heart desires.
But bad writing advice, or at least writing advice you think is bad, is still worthwhile I think, because it tells you about the person giving it, and how they learned to write, and hey, maybe what they're trying to tell you isn't very helpful, but having some perspective on WHY they think it's good advice often can be. There are very few hard-set rules to writing stories, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you something. Any rule you may have been following, or any rule someone else is insisting on, is worth interrogating, and probably breaking more than a few times.
Anyway the rest of King's On Writing was just him faffing about and joking about how much cocaine he used to do while writing. At least he didn't say that was a good idea.