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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian
I dislike present tense writing, unless there's a good reason for it (I wrote a short story in first person present tense because the narrator was in for a nasty surprise at the end).
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That is one of the reasons I am planning to use it -- because people will be expecting the main character to die at the end as soon as they start reading, so it will be a surprise when he doesn't. That and he isn't the sort of person who would be writing his memoirs.