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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

[arcanetrivia]

Present tense can get hard to read if it's in really long chunks (thousands and thousands of words), but I don't think there's any reason to avoid it on principle. It's good for more than action sequences, but I don't think everyone quite has the right ear for when else to use it. It definitely is "fresh and immediate", but I didn't check that box because I don't think that's necessarily a virtue in itself; does the scene or story really call for immediacy?

Often misused but I wouldn't go "augh, present tense, get me out of here!" just because.