LOL! Check out my latest tour de force over at Writers Plain & Simple. Feeling pretty smug about it.
One of my clients emitted a newly plotted Book I of his sweeping historical epic, complete with reimagined characters and richly researched details. As I was reading one section of it, certain baleful habits in verb use struck my eye. Naturally, since I never can keep an opinion to myself, I held forth at length about how to fix these. He claimed to like the result (at least he hasn’t thrown a frying pan at me yet). So I got his permission to use a few examples from that section as the basis for a post at the writer’s blog.
The result, I think, is kind of informative for people who want to be Writers with a Capital W.
Might be useful for bloggers, too. 😉
Ooh, nice! And good ideas! Definitely avoid passive voice – as a long time writer, that one can be annoying, but makes writing so much better.