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Originally Posted by AndrewH
What really drives me up the wall, however, is present tense.
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I think first person, present tense sounds like two air-headed teenagers at the mall.
"So, then my I go, 'Do you really think I'm going to let you treat me like that?!' And he goes, 'Babe, what you see is what you get.' And I go,"....
Gak.
I have finished exactly one book written in that tense. Every other one I've picked up in that tense gets put right back down.
To the OP's question, I am fine on first person, past tense. Sometimes I think it's easier to show a flawed character using that tense. It seems somehow deception that the narrator in a third person story doesn't tell me critical things to the story, just to continue some artificial tension. With first person, it can become obvious that the character doesn't see his/her own flaws, or someone else's.