Quick poll

[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

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

I just finished a novel that was written partially in first person, present tense. That struck me as unusual in the beginning, but once I got into the meat of the story it was not at all cumbersome or bothersome. In fact, it really just faded into the background and seemed entirely appropriate a stylistic choice once I finished the book -- the protagonist was a 15-year-old boy and there were duel narratives (the other in plain old third person, past tense). So I'm going to side with it being perfectly valid, but the skill of the writer needs to make it work.