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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

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

I think writing in present tense is easier. I always write my plot outlines in present tense - it just comes naturally. I haven't even noticed it until all those present-tense fics started eating up fandom. Or certain fandoms - mostly the new ones. However, reading a present tense fic is somehow harder. Perhaps because some of them just seem like plot outlines to me, rather than normal fics. Also, sometimes I just lose concentration and start thinking about unrelated things and don't notice it until I get to a conversation and realise that I have no clue what happened in the past few pages or paragraphs (if I'm lucky). And it is very hard to transition into writing in past tense after I've just finished reading something in present. So, yeah. Present tense for short fics is okay. For longer ones - I prefer the past tense. I have been known to stop reading a fic if it was written in present tense. Nowadays, I can't because the majority of them in the fandoms I'm reading is in present tense. Or perhaps I just got more used to it.