I must tell you that I am one that constantly wants to improve my craft. I think we are always developing as writers, and when you find a friend that makes you better, you HANG on to that friend! I have such a friend in author Frank Allan Rogers. Frank is the author of an exceptional book entitled Upon A Crazy Horse, and he also edited my book Captured In Lies. I respect Frank’s approach and I wanted to share something with you that he just recently sent to me.
One of my projects was a YA series entitled Mystic Lake Guardians. The first book was The Haunting of Mystic Lake, and the series was about a group of 5 teens with some very special abilities who become embroiled in some pretty sticky paranormal conflicts and work to save each other and their town. In the first book, I had a character named Logan…
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Kim's Musings 
Kim, I have an extensive section on various alternatives to the passive-sentence use of was in one of my GeezWriter How-to’s, but it’s unpublished, as I’ve been using it to teach classes but haven’t put together files for e-book yet. I’ll get to it in the coming months, and send a copy your way. I think you’ll enjoy it and see some fun ideas.
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That’s great, Stephen! Thank you. I’m always looking for alternatives for making my writing better. Being from the south, I tend to speak passive. I used to say, “I better do that now or I’ll be forgot,” or something similar. When I could’ve said, “I’m going to do it before I forget.”
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