I find the present tense awkward to read but I slip into it more often than not when I practice freewriting. I wonder why that is.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Laga - Aug 16, 2008 10:52:24 am PDT #683 of 6687
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ginger - Aug 16, 2008 10:53:56 am PDT #684 of 6687
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I fear that writing in general is full of snowflakes, or flakes for short.
I am trying to write about myself for my website. I would rather be boiled in oil than write about how I'm such a special snowflake that you should pay me a lot of money to do work for you.
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 10:57:43 am PDT #685 of 6687
“Not dead yet!”
but I slip into it more often than not when I practice freewriting. I wonder why that is.
Maybe it's how you think or how you verbally tell stories?
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 10:58:51 am PDT #686 of 6687
“Not dead yet!”
Yeah, speculative fiction is full of snowflakes.
This made me snort Diet Coke up my nose.
I fear that writing in general is full of snowflakes, or flakes for short.
BWAH! Hey, I resemble that remark! *g*
Deena - Aug 16, 2008 10:59:36 am PDT #687 of 6687
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I find it easier to write first person than third, and I like stories written that way if they work.
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 11:02:31 am PDT #688 of 6687
“Not dead yet!”
I find it easier to write first person than third, and I like stories written that way if they work.
My preferred poison is First Person, past tense, but it's such a huge no-no in romance that I'm relearning how to write in Third, which I avoided for years because of all the academic training. My dialogue was great, but the narrative sounded like a damned textbook. Feh. With any luck, I've gotten better at that.
Deena - Aug 16, 2008 11:06:05 am PDT #689 of 6687
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I like first person past tense! I think you're right about the academic poison. My third person dialogue sucks ass.
Ginger - Aug 16, 2008 11:15:13 am PDT #690 of 6687
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
First person in the continuing present drives me nuts.
"I am going to the door. The rats hiss. They are eating me. I am bleeding on this paper."
Burrell - Aug 16, 2008 11:18:19 am PDT #691 of 6687
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I can't figure out how to write in first person present, I mean I can't imagine the context in which it would make narrative sense.
javachik - Aug 16, 2008 11:20:06 am PDT #692 of 6687
Our wings are not tired.
Maybe in a mystery, Burrell? But then I don't read many mysteries so what the hell do I know?