Thread: How does writing style influence your reading choices?
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Old 07-19-2013, 12:48 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
This would be an example of present tense writing:



Whereas this would be past tense:



I gave up reading Patricia Cornwall's "Kay Scarpetta" series when she started writing in the present tense - I find it virtually unreadable.
I looked up some articles on present tense and it seems so obvious now
http://theeditorsblog.net/2012/01/31...way-back-then/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...TenseNarrative

The second article has a list of authors, some of whom I like and some of whom I loath. Like Pratchett, loath Palahnuik.

Anyway thanks a bunch for making me remember something I have always known but couldn't bring to bear. Races instead of was racing, how obvious.

Helen
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