{"id":15283,"date":"2016-06-13T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=15283"},"modified":"2016-06-10T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T03:07:39","slug":"life-created-catharine-bramkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/life-created-catharine-bramkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Has Been Created! by Catharine Bramkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YoungFrankenstein\"Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist\u00a0Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> as she shares with us about how \u201cLife Has Been Created!\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

I am fascinated by the passive sentence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Passive sentences gained popularity in the mid-18th<\/sup>\u00a0century with new scientific research. The agreement between the scientists and the publishers of journals and newspapers was that the scientist (a new term and a new field of study) were to write up their ideas and findings passively. They were to allow the facts (as they were) to speak for themselves, removing any action or conjecture on the part of the publishing scientist, or in the early years, the talented amateur. Instead of\u00a0 writing, \u201cI boiled the water and it turned into steam (one of the few guaranteed science experiments I\u2019m comfortable quoting),\u201d the scientific syntax would read, \u201cThe water was boiled,and apparently turned to steam.\u201d No scientist, no direct action. The water was boiled.<\/p>\n

This is understandable on the face of it.<\/strong> Reading a science journal peppered with “I did this, then I did that,” would be boring and lead to accusations of self-aggrandizement. But the scientific method of writing, just like the scientific method, as well as how to write about it, expanded to include law and academics, like so much apparent steam. It wasn\u2019t long before law journals, police records and finally, history books were all written using the scientific method.<\/p>\n

This is why the aforementioned collections are so damn boring: no one does anything.<\/h2>\n

Passive sentences lodged into political debate as well.<\/p>\n

George Orwell, (too bad he couldn\u2019t be a guest on our podcast<\/a>), was really worked up about language and politics and the mis-use therein, so much so he wrote 1984<\/em> and created a political and controlling language, double speak, to make his point: remove the action, remove the I,<\/em> and it will affect your very thoughts.<\/p>\n

Does anyone write in the active voice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. Novelists and journalists do. Journalism is\u00a0all about the direct, one true sentence. A journalist wrote about action, about immediacy — if you are running with the bulls, run. Don\u2019t watch them pass by.<\/p>\n

The active worked in journalism until it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Consider the difference between the headline: Bob Dillion robs Risky Derivative Bank<\/strong> or Risky Derivative Bank was Robbed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For years those true, active sentences ended up creating folk hero and martyrs, and the press learned (actively).<\/p>\n

In as many cases as is appropriate, the new journalism strives to eliminate the evil perpetrator, the criminal, the shooter.<\/p>\n

The victims are listed at the top of the story and described in entirely passive sentences: they were shot, they were hurt. The bank was robbed.<\/p>\n

We took out the actor,<\/strong> the action,\u00a0<\/strong>and are left with the results: mistakes were made.<\/p>\n

What does this trend mean for writers?<\/h2>\n

Passive is as manipulative as the term passive aggressive indicates. We can push what we consider unimportant off the page, out of the conversation. We can pull what we consider the important to the first line in the sentence using the passive voice.<\/p>\n

We can bend opinion and focus just by altering the syntax of our sentences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Passive sentences can absolve\u00a0a person of all guilt. You can headline as the bank robber, or you can \u00a0disappear with the loot, like so much steam.<\/p>\n

Excerpt from the forthcoming book, Don\u2019t Write Like We Talk:<\/strong>\u00a0What we learned after four years interviewing authors and agents, publishers and poets <\/em>by\u00a0Damien Boath & Catharine Bramkamp.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n

\"Catharine<\/a><\/p>\n

Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> is the co-producer of\u00a0Newbie Writers Podcast <\/a>that focuses on newer writers and their concerns. She is a successful writing coach<\/a>, Chief Storytelling Officer, and author of a dozen\u00a0books<\/a>\u00a0including the Real Estate Diva Mysteries series<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0The Future Girls series<\/a><\/em>. She\u00a0holds two degrees in English, and is an adjunct university professor. After fracturing her wrist, she has figured out there is very little she is able to do with one hand tied behind her back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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