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animalasaysrauer:
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Writers, when you sit down to write something, do you make an active choice about what tense to use? For me, I just naturally write in past tense for fics, and when I read present tense, it takes me a really long time to get used to it.
Tagging writers off the top of my head, apologies in advance if I miss you. Feel free to answer anyway. Also, if you’re looking for a list of authors to read: @beautifullights1 @sithofren @spooky-doings @nekosmuse @annundriel @marswithghosts @linatrinch @iocane7 @stardusteddameron @buffycuddlespigs
For a while, in some fandoms, all the Cool Kids were using present tense, so I tried.
I uh.
That’s the only time I’ve ever had problems with tenses in my writing. I can’t do it.
I think it’s because most of my role models used past as I was learning, and in all my classes, everything was in past except gimmicky stuff.
I tried one longer piece in present tense, and posted an excerpt and one reader was like NEVER PRESENT TENSE DIDN’T READ IT and I was like *well then*. Obv this person was not fannish, because like. I think an awful lot of the Fandom Classics kind of fics are present tense! But that scarred me a little. Also I can’t naturally maintain present tense.
So I just write in past tense. And third person. I wrote a novel in first person once, I can do it, but I generally don’t.
animalasaysrauer:
Bed thoughts
Writers, when you sit down to write something, do you make an active choice about what tense to use? For me, I just naturally write in past tense for fics, and when I read present tense, it takes me a really long time to get used to it.
Tagging writers off the top of my head, apologies in advance if I miss you. Feel free to answer anyway. Also, if you’re looking for a list of authors to read: @beautifullights1 @sithofren @spooky-doings @nekosmuse @annundriel @marswithghosts @linatrinch @iocane7 @stardusteddameron @buffycuddlespigs
For a while, in some fandoms, all the Cool Kids were using present tense, so I tried.
I uh.
That’s the only time I’ve ever had problems with tenses in my writing. I can’t do it.
I think it’s because most of my role models used past as I was learning, and in all my classes, everything was in past except gimmicky stuff.
I tried one longer piece in present tense, and posted an excerpt and one reader was like NEVER PRESENT TENSE DIDN’T READ IT and I was like *well then*. Obv this person was not fannish, because like. I think an awful lot of the Fandom Classics kind of fics are present tense! But that scarred me a little. Also I can’t naturally maintain present tense.
So I just write in past tense. And third person. I wrote a novel in first person once, I can do it, but I generally don’t.
