Read an interesting article about the use of was and passive voice. I've been killing was's and had's like adverbs and awkwardly screwing my sentences around. I thought finding ways to avoid using those grammatically necessary three-letter words made me a Better Writer. While it's good in most cases to use active voice, I'm going to stop starving my manuscripts. I still feel an anorexic twinge of guilt every time I write was or had, but I feel more freedom to express things differently. Thanks to Patricia Wrede for that reminder.
What's playing on my mental mp3 player: Undisclosed Desires, Muse
Dang, I should have posted tomorrow. My First post was 12.03--this one would have been 03.12.
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