/lit/ - Literature

>>21901857
>defocusing
I guess I don't exactly get the defocus theory people are referring to here. Passive sentences do tend to be more explanatory rather than experiential (my tryhard reframing of tell vs show respectively). So in terms of tone you should be aware of that, but like a lot of people I think "show don't tell" is bad advice because telling is extremely efficient at relaying information, and so long as it logically flows from the previous sentence like in the example I don't see an issue. I'm starting to think the "passive is bad" and "show don't tell" concepts may be connected.

Passive voice is good.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbHKbvwCnU&t=1s

>>21628554
>"blind leading the blind"
>always strive towards the active rather than the passive

Case in fucking point kek

>>20988209
Why should everyone have to scroll past the same generic 2,000 characters describing pros and cons of self pub and links for anime writing that don't apply to them EVERY SINGLE THREAD. The people who care enough to try will still read it in a paste in and the retards that spam their first 500 words of unproofread anime drek weren't reading it regardless of format.

>>20988215
I'm cool with this too. Also I think adding Pullum on Passives could be good since there isn't as much space constraint: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbHKbvwCnU

>>20889852
I've shared before but below is my slightly outdated playlist of all the writing videos I've personally found helpful. A few that relate to structure in there.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvFmakK8XmFNHJuKVD2r7yOMyIHQqI41W

Threadly reminder to listen to Pullum in Passives or forever be a psued.

youtube.com/watch?v=kcbHKbvwCnU