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Old 02-27-2015, 01:57 AM   #21863
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Isn't that fairly inevitable if an author writes in the first person? One of my pet hates is books that are written in the first person present, which seems to be distressingly common in "YA" books. I tried reading "The Hunger Games", having seen many people recommend it, but that was one of the things about it that really annoyed me.
Present tense grates on me in general, but it has its uses. The indie author I'm currently working with is writing in past, but uses present for dream sequences. It's a neat approach, I think; the reader can tell something's off, even if they don't notice precisely what...
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