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Do you have any tips for deciding whether to use first or third person and present or past tense??

1st vs. 3rd Person | Present vs. Past Tense

1st Person is Best Used When...

The antagonist is abstract/is a psychological barrier that must be overcome

It's easier to weave backstory/info with experience.

Immediacy and toppling high stakes are important for the reader to keep rooting for your MC (like in the case of many fantasy novels)

You have an unreliable narrator.

You struggle to have a consistent tone/perspective. (third person not executed well will easily get confusing)

For literary fiction

3rd Person is Best Used When...

You have multiple MCs, following them more or less equally throughout.

You have freedom to move from wide, establishing views and closed-in views - this is good for conveying the theme.

You find yourself injecting too much of yourself in your writing and wish to prevent this.

You want the reader to view the MC more objectively, sometimes the narrator even offering commentary.

You wish to make use of dramtic irony (the reader knows more than the MC)

Present Tense is Best For...

The majority of novels are written in the past tense, and would be the easier one to execute if you're a first-time writer. However, present tense is certainly not inferior.

It feels like a movie: it allows you to mimic the action and suspense found in film.

It intensifies emotions: it gives the feeling of "we're in this together", the reader experiencing things with the MC side to side.

Works well with Deep POV: Deep POV uses third person narrators like 1st person, sticking with one character's mind for closeness.

Best for short-time-frame stories with constant action.

Works well for unreliable narrators: Since the narrative is so close to the action, it is easy to have a narrator that leaves out details.

However...

Readers can feel "claustrophobic, always pressed up against the immediate" (Philip Pullman quote)

Time shifts can be awkward - you're locked in the present more or less; unless you use flashbacks/dreams (which are disruptive)

It's harder to execute because you need to capture the texture of the present while acknowledging that the past and the future still exist.

It mimics film - you cannot just jump characters, speak directly to the reader or do time skips.

Books written in present tense (and are still good!)

The Hunger Games series

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Ulysses by James Joyce

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

Fight Club by Chuck Palhniuk

The White Queen by Philippa Gregroy

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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1326 – Day 3 – Tovar Fairground

It’s time for Gregory and Agnes’ wedding!

Despite living in Praaven now, Gregory decides that it is only right to celebrate his wedding on the Fairgrounds near his home village. He is delighted to officially introduce Agnes to his family, although some of them have already met her at the abbey. She is a little intimidated at meeting the entire Townsend clan – Gregory assures her that it is only his siblings, their partners, and some of his nieces and nephews, but it is still an overwhelming number of people compared to her sister and father.

Sensing her unease, Malika greets her warmly and introduces her to her youngest, whom Agnes seems quite enchanted by, while Gregory goes to hug his father. Winter had sadly made it impossible to visit the farm, so he hasn’t seen Benedict in years.

It is soon time to greet their guests. Gregory’s teacher-turned-partner Jeremiah Browne is invited, of course, as are Abbot Edmonds (who is, not so secretly, Agnes’ father) and Agnes’ sister Berrit. The other guests are all part of Gregory’s family – Anna, her husband and daughters, Simon and his wife, Elsie and Wilfred Watmore, and of course Benjamin’s entire family.

It is a challenge to give everyone the attention they deserve, but the bridal couple is nothing if not determined to try. It is nice to see some people again, too. Gregory has been a regular guest at the Crawley’s house, but he hasn’t spent much time with Benjamin’s children and hasn’t seen Simon in many years. He doesn’t think he ever met his lovely wife, either. She seems downtrodden, but Simon explains that it’s due to a recent loss.

Gregory can only hope that being among their family will cheer her up, and Malika, too, who has recently lost one of her own children.

At some point while the guests are still arriving, the abbot sits down at a fire. He is a frail old man and seems oddly melancholic for such a joyous occasion.

The actual ceremony goes smoothly, despite being somewhat late in the day because some of the guest arrive later than expected. It causes some frayed nerves – to be frank, Gregory and Agnes can hardly wait to finally be married – but all turns out well, all relevant words are said and at the end of it, the happy couple is pronounced as husband and wife.

If more than Malika’s kind welcome is needed to put Agnes’ anxieties at rest, the cheering that greets their union does the trick. Her new husband’s family seems delighted to have her as one of them, which in turn delights her. Since her mother’s death, it has only been her sister and the women at the abbey. She is only too happy to be part of the Townsends now.

And she can’t wait to start her own branch of the family with Gregory.

He holds her hand tightly as they turn towards the congregation, giving her a gentle smile. “Are you feeling well, my wife?”

She can’t help but beam. “Spectacular, my husband.”

This moment alone would have been worth the years of waiting.

After the formal part of the celebration is over, the celebration part of the celebration can begin. Which means, most of all, food and dancing. It isn’t easy to put together a wedding feast in early spring, but regardless of that, the couple and their guests wholly enjoy themselves. It is good for everyone to get a chance to catch up with each other, Gregroy makes a little speech about how glad he is to have everyone take part in this celebration of his union with the woman he loves more than anyone else in the world, there are toasts, there are bawdy jokes, it is more than they honestly could have wished for.

It is even comforting, in a way. The last Townsend wedding – Simon’s and Mariora’s clandestine nuptials not included – had been before the famine and the recent upheavals in the kingdom. It is a balm to see that so many of them still exist. That there are many children that will carry on the Townsend line.

But most of all, Gregory enjoys dancing under the starlight with his new wife, surrounded by his family. He can’t imagine a more perfect culmination to their wedding. Well, maybe aside from their wedding night, but Agnes lightly slaps him on the arm when he makes that joke, protesting that she was still raised in an abbey as a Watcher-fearing woman.

Gregory chuckles. “I’ve heard it said that the Watcher wants us to have many children to tell Her stories. I can’t imagine She is illogical enough not to know that they need to be created somehow.”

“You’re a terrible blasphemer”, she rejoins, mock offended.

“Or just drunk”, he responds, spinning her around. “If anyone asks, especially your father or sister, it’s that.”

And a bit apart from the revellers, Benedict has taken the opportunity of being under the clear spring sky to show the stars to his young grandson.

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27!

Looks like God is on your side Looks like I've been off your mind I'll give you one more pretty smile And wish you all the best But the truth is I hope you're not happy without me I hope that it's hard to get out of bed I hope you get angry about me I hope you're not happy ever again

dear GOD this is both Phillip Graves and Gregroy House core, so, so petty

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You don’t like strong. You don’t like assertive. You like needy.

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