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Comments on: First Person Tense. It’s Tense. https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/ Coffee. Comedy. Creation. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:59:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jen https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/#comment-6069 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:59:51 +0000 http://missmacchiato.com/?p=1447#comment-6069 Thanks Aden! I’m hoping to have it out in a few months. My editors are hard at work, sending lots of stuff for me to correct, and my illustrator (cover art!) is already on the case. I’m very excited about it.

]]> By: Aden https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/#comment-6068 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:11:38 +0000 http://missmacchiato.com/?p=1447#comment-6068 I have been thinking about this subject for the past few days! I was really glad to run across this post. And that first sentence is making me wonder when this debut novel is going to debut because I loved it.

]]> By: Jen https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/#comment-6067 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:02:18 +0000 http://missmacchiato.com/?p=1447#comment-6067 Hi Perri, thanks for your encouraging words! I’ve heard pretty nasty things about first person, too, but when it’s well done, it can accomplish so much. It definitely takes a lot of work to master, but when everything aligns… Oh, what a feeling!

]]> By: Perri https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/#comment-6066 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:59:15 +0000 http://missmacchiato.com/?p=1447#comment-6066 I love that first person present tense example! Great first paragraph in general. It’s intriguing.

Some people have a thing against present tense in general, but I just love it. I wrote my first (unpublished as yet) novel in present tense and I like it that way.

]]> By: Jen https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/#comment-6065 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:12:43 +0000 http://missmacchiato.com/?p=1447#comment-6065 And I totally appreciate your editorial eye keeping me straight!

]]> By: Kerry https://jen.marklidstone.com/first-person-tense-its-tense/#comment-6064 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:18:09 +0000 http://missmacchiato.com/?p=1447#comment-6064 First person can use past or present tense, there’s no rule about that. It just needs to be consistent, you can’t switch back and forth while describing the same event. “I press the accelerator. I felt the car move forward.”

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