#150Daysto100k – Assignment #9: Show Vs Tell, Passive Voice, and Other Tricks of the Trade

Today is one part editorial assignment, one part drafting assignment, and one part teaching moment.

For those of you who are comfortable with show vs tell, passive voice, and controlling tone, vibe, and mood, you can skip on to the actual assignment:

Write your second chapter.

I know authors who write 1,000 word chapters. I know authors who write 10,000 chapters. I know plenty of authors who are somewhere in between. (Personally, I like between 4,000 to 6,000 words, but I’ve done 1,000 ...