Oh, you, with your fancy book learning and big words. (Seriously though - what does that mean? I was a film major, LOL.)
past perfect verb tenses
This is one of the main things I seem to find when I edit. Lots of past and pluperfect. Like, damn. It just does get really bulky. However, I also find that sometimes that can be a good indicator of when I'm just recounting information in a passive way instead of actually dramatizing a scene, so.
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Date: 2011-01-21 01:43 pm (UTC)Oh, you, with your fancy book learning and big words. (Seriously though - what does that mean? I was a film major, LOL.)
past perfect verb tenses
This is one of the main things I seem to find when I edit. Lots of past and pluperfect. Like, damn. It just does get really bulky. However, I also find that sometimes that can be a good indicator of when I'm just recounting information in a passive way instead of actually dramatizing a scene, so.