I have a sentence that I'm starting my novel with: "Her name, her real one, had long since been lost to the past." Now I was testing out...
I've found that I occasionally use passive voice to achieve a certain voice, but there's always a little voice in my brain telling me not to use...
Lightning flickered in the gray horizon, accompanied by a lingering thunderclap. I wouldn't think so since lightning is the subject, but I might...
I'm always a fan of seeing strong and capable women in books and film. I used to have a HUGE admiration and respect for Katniss Everdeen. She had...
How important is it to get rid of a passive voice? I put a few paragraphs of my WIP into script write and it identified some areas of passive voice.
So, a problem I have noticed myself having more than once now. Having to show a character correctly in a passionate way when there emotions and...
At our writers club last night, we had our, seemingly never ending, ongoing panel discussion about passive voice in manuscripts or in essays. I...
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