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.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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 6681
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ginger - Aug 16, 2008 10:53:56 am PDT #684 of 6681
"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 6681
“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 6681
“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 6681
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 6681
“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 6681
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 6681
"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 6681
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 6681
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?