on Fiction University:
Passive voice in a novel can put your readers right to sleep.
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“Avoid the passive voice” is one of those pieces of advice most writers have heard and likely struggled with at some point. It’s good advice, since revising passive into active typically makes the sentence stronger, but like all things writing, simply doing it because people say so isn’t always the best idea..
Without understanding why a passive voice causes trouble, you might rewrite it when it’s actually the best thing for your story at that moment. It does have its uses after all.
So first, let’s look at what passive voice means.
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Weirdly, as a tech writer, I use passive voice as part of the trade. Shifting out of it is easy because I recognize it as part of my job.
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