I read this great blog post yesterday on YA Highway about passive vs. active sentences. The post, Sentence Strengthening Sunday – The Passive Sentence, provides a clear description of passive vs. active sentences and how to spot them in your own writing. As a major offender of passive writing, I highly recommend checking out the post.
I am currently working on a young adult dystopian novel, The Colony, set in a future where the Earth has all but been destroyed and war is brewing between the survivors that were left behind on their dying planet and the privileged who had the means to escape. When not writing or reading, I enjoy eating cupcakes, snuggling with my cat, Arthur, and drinking tea. Alright, who are we kidding. I do these things while writing and reading, too.