I’m learning this writing thing. And one thing I’ve noticed recently is my passive verbs. I don’t know if readers take note or not, but when I do a grammar check thing it tells me I’m using the passive voice a lot.
I never thought much about it. But it keeps coming up in blogs I read. I feel like the universe is beating me over the head. Universe if you are listening, you can stop now, I got the message.
I do the ‘was’ thing a lot.
As in:
She was trembling
blah. So, what did that look like authoress?
When ‘was’ is used, it’s mainly telling not showing.
Her hands shook so bad her arms moved.
or
Her whole body vibrated.
So, universe, I got the message, I will edit the was out of everything. Tone it down just a little so I can finish the first draft. If it isn’t polished, the world won’t end. I will go and edit all my writing later.
After this draft of Baggage. Please.
(WordPress only found one instance of passive voice in this blog post. I edited it out.)
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How about, her hands trembled? Its a good verb.
I dunno if i like trembled. I keep think do I look at people and think “oh, she’s trembling”? it doesn’t seem genuine.
But it does remove the was.