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myokk · 2 months ago

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My writing/reading question of the day:

Do you prefer present tense or past tense? Or something entirely different like future tense? For writing AND reading🫶

The more I write (I wish I realized how fun it was before this year😭😭😭) the more I realize I like to play around with language & tense choice can have such a profound impact on how your writing comes across & even how I feel as I’m writing. With my oneshots I’ve been playing around with only present tense & my main fic is past tense (but present during the flashbacks - idk don’t ask it just felt right😆).

Or does nobody else think about tense and I’m just alone in this😆😆😆 LANGUAGE IS JUST SO COOL !!!!

#I’m not even getting into POV😆😆#like I prefer third person limited where you don’t have all the information #but I LOVE first person when the narrator is super unreliable (lolita secret history American psycho great gatsby etc etc)#plus #omg I just remembered the cortazar short story where he’s getting strangled by his sweater that one makes me SO claustrophobic #and I doubt it would have been successful in third person #maybe you can answer pov too I just want to start a conversation about it bc I’m interested #I read something once in future tense and it was SO COOL #it was all kind of hypothetical and at the end of the story you realize that none of it had actually happened yet #I just love reading talk to me about it😭😭😭#I liked the conversation a lot about my confusion with the perfect tense #(in my defense I don’t use it when I speak in spanish/bable bc🤪 it doesn’t exist in bable…)

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