And words ending in -ly such as evidently I actually have a problem with those parts of speech. It has probably been better than twenty years since I read a short book by Stephen King of writing and one of his strong recommendations was to eliminate as much as possible the use or the -ly suffix. I know that is one of my shortcoming. Then there is the problem of finding a synonym for because, as that is one of my favorite conjunctions to begin a sentence with, and I really do need to find a different writing style, or to eliminate that word, or limit the use. I had gone through my current project with the view of doing just that and came up using 'since' repeatedly....
Needless to say, I hope I'm learning things as I wrestle with putting an 80,000 word bit of bloat on a diet to hopefully reduce it to around 60.000 words without loosing my 'voice'. Editing is actually, so far as I can tell the more difficult part of writing.
All I can add is that as I work on that project I'm extending the project to at least another 60.000 words in a volume two so I'll either publish as a consolidated volume, or in two separate volumes. IDK which is better. If I were writing for paper publication I'd probably opt for a single consolidated volume, especially as the two parts are strongly linked, and can't be read separately...