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[runespoor]

The major problem with present tense is that it just screams "angst", and, well, once you've read one angst fic (or ten, or a hundred, or...) you've really read them all. It's always about present tense.

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[archon-mentha.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Me, I love both reading and writing in present tense - if the fic calls for it, of course. There is a wonderful intensity and immediacy that it brings. It completely alters the pacing and timing of the story and helps create suspense.

I'm guessing I probably haven't read the angst fics you're talking about, though. *g* Anything can be done well, and anything can be done badly.

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

There's also the fact that I've been struggling a fic which apparently cannot make its mind which tense it wants to written in for a few months now.

Maybe it's that character sketches-like fics tend to be written in present tense?... And I've had bad experiences about the pseudo-intellectualism that is present tense. (Including in published fiction that I've had to read for school.)

I guess I'm an old-fashioned pre-Joycean gal.

[fearofnever.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that (don't know if it's old). Hmm ... I'd like a Web site or perhaps some software that will, over time, correct my grammar and appropriately make today's complaints tomorrows records.

*why Hence as interest?

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

I'm saying that about present tense, but an awful lot of my kinda-long kinda-plotty fics are written in present tense - they're constantly trying to turn into character analysis ficlets of 1'000 words, so it explains the frustration.

I just really like the word "hence".