The Great Transfer - Passivator

Stumble brought The Passivator to my attention late on Saturday night. I had a look at it and it seemed to be a nifty piece of code.

As you may know, I have just finished the first draft of my novel and it is all printed out and lovely. I thought, just for a laugh, that I would convert the Word document into a HTML page and use the Passivator on it.

Oh. My. Titty-fucking. God.

I wrote almost 50% of it in the Passive voice! And, when you're looking at 136000+ words, that's a metric fuckload of pacifism.

I have, therefore, been spending every spare moment I've had since then going through the novel and Activating it (which sounds a lot cooler than it is). I am just over a quarter of the way through and I've been at it for hours.

Of course, I've not been able to ignore the glaring factual, grammatical and logical errors which I come across during this, so I've had to correct those as well.

So, I'm annoyed to announce that my second draft should be ready by the end of the week. I am going to have to put the old, first draft for recycling... what a damn waste. Every time I use a recycled-paper product, now, I will think "The novel was poorly written by the author"...

Gah!