tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198183082208259403.post4866272876606830006..comments2023-09-29T08:21:31.184-04:00Comments on I Should Be Writing: No Love For The Present?Valerie Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664186778812993543noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198183082208259403.post-88430186477032935892011-06-15T17:38:12.680-04:002011-06-15T17:38:12.680-04:00@Brenna - Yay present tense! My journal is similar...@Brenna - Yay present tense! My journal is similar in that occasionally I would veer back and forth between past and present. Usually starting in past and then switching to present.<br /><br />@Ezmirelda - I'm really curious about why people feel so strongly about present tense. It's so interesting to me.Valerie Kemphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05795714434618357955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198183082208259403.post-84921704396915123292011-06-15T15:15:40.551-04:002011-06-15T15:15:40.551-04:00Awesome post! I love writing with both tenses. Oft...Awesome post! I love writing with both tenses. Often I come across comments by readers saying "I hate present tense! Why didn't this author just write it in past" and it kind of irritates me. >_>Ezmireldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04217164955411191307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198183082208259403.post-48799290291026126622011-06-15T12:49:01.219-04:002011-06-15T12:49:01.219-04:00I'm not going to be much help discussion-wise,...I'm not going to be much help discussion-wise, because I'm squarely in your camp—I really like present tense. <br /><br />Although . . . now that I think about it, whenever I'd write in my journal, it was always this weird kind of past-progressive, where things happened in the past, present, and future. Which, yeah. You don't see a lot of that in fiction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com