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There is nothing quite so likely to draw me into a flamewar on a forum as seeing someone confidently telling another person not to do X, where they have utterly misidentified X itself. It's not even a matter of disagreeing on whether or not X is ever appropriate, or appropriate in those circumstances... No, it's a complete misunderstanding of how X is actually defined.
For bonus points: using the wrong term for it entirely!
This is why I am currently taking slow, careful breaths so that I do not froth madly at someone who advised another person to never use "the passive tense", and then helpfully identified sentence portions along the lines of "The hunter is sending out his dogs" as passive.
IT IS NOT CALLED THAT AND DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
*pant pant pant*
Anyway, maybe I should go use some of that emotional energy on my own writing, eh? Especially since the current novel project has some perfect opportunities for people to actually debate this in character.
...but then I have to work out how closely the language everyone in this second world fantasy is speaking (barbarians aside) actually matches the vague Latin-or-Greek grammar I've been assuming so far. Oh dear. Whipping up a conlang for this setting is not something I want to deal with right now, because that is a vast time sink that could swallow me whole.
For bonus points: using the wrong term for it entirely!
This is why I am currently taking slow, careful breaths so that I do not froth madly at someone who advised another person to never use "the passive tense", and then helpfully identified sentence portions along the lines of "The hunter is sending out his dogs" as passive.
IT IS NOT CALLED THAT AND DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
*pant pant pant*
Anyway, maybe I should go use some of that emotional energy on my own writing, eh? Especially since the current novel project has some perfect opportunities for people to actually debate this in character.
...but then I have to work out how closely the language everyone in this second world fantasy is speaking (barbarians aside) actually matches the vague Latin-or-Greek grammar I've been assuming so far. Oh dear. Whipping up a conlang for this setting is not something I want to deal with right now, because that is a vast time sink that could swallow me whole.