She hesitated every so often, searching for an answer that would tell them her exact thoughts, so the pencil scribbled away, sufficing the paper with an answer.
The overuse of adverbs often results in lazy verb choices and weak sentences.
Too lazy to write one, but honestly you should look up history, the good things in cali and just copy n past that in a document size 12, times new Roman and double space it ;)) works like a charm (paraphrase for a better result)