"I guess so," said the blond ex-tin man in the duster...

[verilyverity]

What is up with the burly detectivism in Tin Man?  Never have I encountered a fandom so dead set on replacing characters' names and pronouns with ridiculous sounding proxies.  And passive voice!  With a verb that takes an object!  How can that even sound right to an author?

ETA: Ye gods and little fishes!  *stares at ballooning comments*

Comments

[moony_blues]

Never have I encountered a fandom so dead set on replacing characters' names and pronouns with ridiculous sounding proxies. And passive voice!

Ok, I know that I'm terrified of redundancy (I had a college English prof who tore one of my papers to bits because my word choices weren't varied enough for his taste and actually encouraged me to use lots of pronouns). It's not monotony, just redundancy. It is, however, something for which I now look in my writing thanks to your wonderful beta work on OST. =D

As for passive voice...I dunno. I can't answer for anyone else, but sometimes I use passive voice because it sounds a bit more fluid without realizing that it's unnecessarily florid. =)

[verilyverity]

*headscratch* I've never seen passive voice that seemed more fluid. In fact, it tends to trip me up like a speed bump.

Do not fear the colourless words! Said! Said! Said! Said!

See? It's great! Saidsaidsaidsaidsaidsaidsaidsaidsaid!

[moony_blues]

LOL! I should have said it seems more fluid to me... =P I'm often too wordy for my own good in my writing.

[verilyverity]

I may be getting a little punchy. :P

[moony_blues]

You? Punchy? Never! =D

Me? Facetious? Of Course! ;-)

[erinm_4600]

oh...

*not lost anymore*