ME WRITE GUD

Wait, you're actually reading this? So the title didn't scare you away? Or bore you to death? Interesting.

I'll be honest, I don't really understand how "active voice" is so much better than "passive voice". I mean, I can see the relationship, but one doesn't seem better than the other- they both serve their purposes in certain situations. I actually use passive voice a lot in my modular writings since it's something that is done often. Most people (aside from English/Writing teachers or pedantic jerks in the wild) will not detect passive voice in an oral context, and when they see it in a written context it's still getting the point across.

"Strong" writing is kind a misnomer here. There's no "strong" writer. We all suck. Hemingway, Tolstoy, Lovecraft, Poe, Murray- they all sucked at writing. We do too. "Strong writing" refers to people who stuck with an idea and edited it over and over and over after getting external input (editors) and internal input (the voices in your head that appear when you've drunken too much Goldschlager). Sure, some took their writing a little too far, and while there's many writers that stuck with it too much to the point of going into a depressive silence and either opening their veins with a pen or performing fellatio on their favorite projectile weapon, success in writing and in webtext is more how you refine and contract the text as it should be for your audience.

For example: http://stars4her.blog.com/2013/04/18/chapter-4/
"I have a tendency to speak in the passive voice". That's fine. But do you type in the passive voice too?

http://revkaworld.blogspot.com/2013/04/writing-good-webtext-editing-webtext.html
Kind of gets the idea with passive.

I'm truly just annoyed by all the hype about "passive" and "active" voice. Good writing works, people won't care if you say "he ran the gauntlet" or "through the gauntlet he ran" if it's done well.

Kind of like Lovecraft's "Azathoth". He basically ejaculated passive voice all over that thing. Did anyone notice? Of course not, it's Lovecraft. His prose poetry is beautiful no matter what he does.

Also, since this is the last "blog post" I need to do, I thought I'd say some things.

http://kalb483.wordpress.com/
Those balloons are more annoying than the rap music they play in the University Center for SEA Thursday.

There, I said it.

tl;dr - We need to forget passive vs. active voice. Just use a "good" voice for the writing. As always, the audience decides.

ME WRITE GUD