Getting back to the style issue, I've read plenty of good books (including recent ones) that take a more roundabout, meandering approach to the narrative. It can certainly be done well, and not every story has to have the mile-a-minute, laconic pacing of a thriller (and it is my view that the 'rules' we so often see discussed are meant for writing that is intended to be that way).
It comes down to the author making a stylistic choice and not being bound by thinking they have to write a certain style of book. A more verbose narrative has a certain flavor to it. Use of the words on this list can add to that, and will create a work with an overall different impression than something you might read from Lee Child or Elmore Leonard. In our genre, fantasy, I do not think the approach of crime-fiction writers is the standard yet. At least not in epic fantasy. You'll see it much more prominently in urban fantasy.
Awareness is the key. If you're going for that lean, fast-paced approach and you've riddled your writing with these sorts of words, then you've made a mistake out of lack of skill or perhaps ignorance (everyone has to start from a point of ignorance). Knowing what these rules are, and what type of work they're meant to produce, will help you.
On the other hand, if you're consciously going for a different style, then knowing the rules won't hurt you unless you mistakenly think they're somehow mandatory and should take precedence over your own ideas of what the narrative should be like.
It comes down to the author making a stylistic choice and not being bound by thinking they have to write a certain style of book. A more verbose narrative has a certain flavor to it. Use of the words on this list can add to that, and will create a work with an overall different impression than something you might read from Lee Child or Elmore Leonard. In our genre, fantasy, I do not think the approach of crime-fiction writers is the standard yet. At least not in epic fantasy. You'll see it much more prominently in urban fantasy.
Awareness is the key. If you're going for that lean, fast-paced approach and you've riddled your writing with these sorts of words, then you've made a mistake out of lack of skill or perhaps ignorance (everyone has to start from a point of ignorance). Knowing what these rules are, and what type of work they're meant to produce, will help you.
On the other hand, if you're consciously going for a different style, then knowing the rules won't hurt you unless you mistakenly think they're somehow mandatory and should take precedence over your own ideas of what the narrative should be like.