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Originally Posted by AndrewH
What really drives me up the wall, however, is present tense. I understand authors think it gives the story a feeling of immediacy, that the reader will feel the story is happening right now, but it's such an uncommon method of storytelling in English (I've been told it's the norm in other languages) that I find it incredibly distracting.
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I tend to agree about present tense. Recently I read some thrillers by Wendy Corsi Staub, who used present tense. Initially it was off-putting and a distraction. After a while I got used to it, but I still didn't quite see the point.
I don't care about first person or third person. I do care that authors pay attention to POV in third person, though (assuming there's not an omniscient narrator). At least in first person, POV is consistent!