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Passive writing occurs when, as storytellers, we are separated from the moment by words that block our intimacy with the action. Beginning writers often choose stative verbs, the passive voice, and heavily depend on weak verb forms in their writing. One step on the slippery slope of passive prose is the overuse of stative verbs. Stative verbs express a state rather than an action. They are…