Tag: writing and whatnot

ltleflrt:

rosemoonweaver:

I never used to write in present tense. Never. I didn’t even like it that much. But I did it once or twice and now past tense looks weird and feels wrong. I call it the @ltleflrt curse beacuse I remeber reading something where she said she *never* did present tense… until that was all she did and I thought to myself “well it couldn’t be that hard to switch back and forth, could it?”. Yeah no, it is.

@rosemoonweaver I switched because I like writing Dean in present tense better than past tense.  It fits his personality in the narration from his POV better (imho).  And it was SO HARD to get in the groove (

Kiss the Baker was my first present tense fic, and I still catch places where I slipped tenses when I re-read it even all these years later :D), and now that I’m there, I don’t like writing or reading past tense anymore lol

I do read things in past tense, quite often.  Since it was my original preference, it’s easier for me to slip back into being comfortable reading it.  But writing?  A few sentences in and I’m like NOPE.  It’s super hard to alternate.

Lol. It’s funny you started doing it for Dean because I started doing it with Sam in Strength Enough to Build a Home. I was constantly slipping back into past tense there, too. It was a huge pain in the butt. But present tense just got the tone I was going for better. But now I can’t not do it. I can read past tense just fine but I have to really focus to write it.