Tag Archives: Active Voice

How to Write a Great Mystery Shopping Report

You did everything right. You got to the right restaurant on time. You discreetly slipped into the restroom to jot important information on an index card. You wrote a report filled with fabulous details and filed it hours ahead of your deadline. When you received your grade, it wasn’t a 10. Or even a 9. […]

Creative Writing – Your Writing Style

Your Writing Style Your writing style is simply the way you put sentences together and the way you construct a sentence. Style is very subjective. Different readers have different opinions of what they feel is good writing and what is bad writing. Some readers and editors prefer a passive voice (which is usually accepted in […]

Passive Voice: Linking Verbs and Wordiness

Editing is my “day job”, so to speak, and the last two short stories I published were longer, both over 120,000 words. These works are for established authors, but not so much for new authors, who are still inexperienced. With fiction articles, the writer usually has a word count limit. Being concise while still entertaining […]