TA: Wow...

Talk about one of the coolest realizations... I wish I had known this before. So, during English class one day, my professor showed us what the difference was between writing with passive voice and active voice, and what targeting "to be" verbs does for your writing. Holy freaking amazing. It makes sense... in one of those "oh, duh," ways that you have to be told in order to realize. I've been in creative writing and advanced english classes ever since I can remember (I mean, I signed myself up for a reading class without my parents knowing during preschool. I've been an english troublemaker from the beginning :D ) but I have never, even once, had a teacher who talked about nixing "to be" verbs and replacing them with active ones. Oh, they talk about active and passive voice, but I looked at my writing and it made such an incredible difference. I had heard, from one professor during a summer camp, to avoid "ly" adjectives and the like, but my professor explained why and how to do it effectively. SO much better. But, now I have a problem because anything I wrote previously to finding this out (which is a lot...) I'm going to want to completely revamp every verb (well, many.) Talk about cool.