Anyway, I read some information about tenses and
From Nicks Writing Blog: http://www.mywritingblog.com/writer/2007/07/tense-in-fiction.html
"And finally, if you write in the present tense, you need to be very careful when referring to events that occurred in the characters' past. In ordinary, past-tense narration, we use the pluperfect tense to introduce such "flashbacks":
Mary smiled and sipped her tea, remembering when they first met. It had been a cold November morning...I never knew about pluperfect tense but there you go. Very interesting.
Novels are better to be written in past tense, especially for a novice, that is the advice I have read.
Anyway, just some thoughts on tense that I thought was interesting.
2 comments:
hi. Thanks for the web and some guidance in writing a short story. I'm new in this field, having problems with the tenses (not consistent in my writing).
Well, thanks again for the great info. :)
No problems anonymous.
I am very happy to help. I need help too so I think it's great to share knowledge around. I wish I had more time to blog...
:)
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