Greetings and salutations, good readers of Equestria Daily! · 12:48pm Dec 30th, 2011
I tried leaving a comment on the ED post with my story, but I'm having issues with the commenting system at the present moment. I r dumb. Feel very badly that I haven't been able to do a proper thanks over them, but I'm unsure if I will be able to do so.
To everyone who's commented both here and over at ED: Thank you so much for reading my story and for taking the time to comment on it. I feel both highly honored and mildly terrified to have my story featured on ED.
I've found all of the thoughts on the verb tense issue really interesting and useful. I don’t mind stories in the present tense, myself, though of course some stories employ present tense more effectively than do others. (I won’t presume to judge whether my story does or not—-that’s not for me to say.) I knew present tense isn’t popular over at ED, but I hadn’t known feelings ran quite so strong against it. I’m sorry it’s presented an accessibility issue for some readers. That was never my intention.
A bit in my defense, and a bit just as arcane background, I originally began writing the story in the more usual past tense, as I do with most of my writing. But I kept consistently slipping into present tense despite myself and, finally, just gave in and wrote the story that way. Oh, well. Not all experiments end in success. C’est la vie.
Thank you again, everyone, and a special thanks to the ED pre-readers for taking the time to read and provide feedback on my story.
Cheers,
DB
Keep up the good work! Cheers!