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Originally Posted by John F
To me, the past tense looks normal, and what I would expect. Your present tense to me reads more like a play or direction.
I believe past tense is the norm? The book I'm currently reading uses past tense.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Past tense has always been the norm and present tense a rare exception. Recently there seem to be more authors writing in the present tense, though, which I personally detest.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Past tense is normal.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Your brian is scumbled. Pease resit.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The past tense reads correctly and the present tense (corrections) reads oddly.
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The consensus is unanimous but even now it still looks (and sounds) wrong to me. It seems like a contradiction, the action is happening now, but it's described as happening in the past. I guess my brain
is seriously scrambled today. I can probably can blame it on writing short screenplays, where you're always told to use present tense.
Thanks everyone. It's weird that I just noticed this in this one book. I've never had this reaction before.