The writer being invisible is an academic perspective that never holds water in the real world. Every single reader and reviewer talks about how good or bad a w

The writer being invisible is an academic perspective that never holds water in the real world. Every single reader and reviewer talks about how good or bad a writer's voice is. The concept of invisibility makes beginning writers go from one extreme to another. From too much poetic prose to being sterile and monotone. This also applies in nonfiction writing. And no, adverbs do not make sentences passive. This idea popped up in amateur writing forums recently and its driving me nuts. Passive tense involves using is, has, was as verbs in a sentence. No where in any official definition of passive tense does anyone claim adverbs create passive tense. And the joke is, writing is about life, minus the boring parts.