Tense · 10:19pm Jun 24th, 2012
Have you ever written something then gone back a few days later and realized that you went from past to present to future in the same sentence?
"In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
Have you ever written something then gone back a few days later and realized that you went from past to present to future in the same sentence?
Yes. Oh, god, yes. Tense in my worse enemy. My original early chapters were all over the place, and even now I struggle to keep the tense correct.
193894 I just went back to the chapter I have been putting off and found five paragraphs that were in present tense mixed in with the rest that are past... and I only went over ten paragraphs...
193905
I head your pain, brother. Usually takes as long (or longer) to edit a chapter once written, just because of that.
I always hated it when I continously mix up tenses, it's gonna make me a better writer when I learned to got them straight.
194450
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