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[blamebrampton]

[Poll #1633332]In other news, HAPPY BIRTHDAY samena  and eanelinea77 ! May your days be excellent and filled with visits from the gift fairies and cake pixies!

And if anyone else out there is out of their tiny little minds with overwork: Agatha Christie, complex geometry, red lip gloss and slightly complicated knitting are all decent stopgaps until your brain has time to recover. One week, and I will be off having an adventure with no one expecting me to rescue anyone else's demented prose! If I am tremendously dilligent, I can even get a good lot of writing done and be a step closer to never editing again.

Well, never editing anything not written by friends or interesting fandom people, at any rate ...

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I simply love present tense. It's breathless and heart-in-throat and feels like it carries the promise of fulfillment soon, like orgasm. Of course that means it feels like you want to give the reader that fulfillment before too long, which is why I think some people shy away from it in longer stories. But if I couldn't use present tense I couldn't have written a lot of things.