The place where I tend to run into trouble is when I'm trying to write more than one tense in the same story - for example, a story that's largely in present tense, but also references things that happened to the characters in the past. It's not so much a problem of forgetting what tense I'm supposed to be in; I get confused about what tense is grammatically correct in the border areas.
But I think I've seen what you're talking about - stories that randomly shift between past and present from sentence to sentence. And yeah, I have no idea about that one. I'm pretty sure I don't do that. Actually, it's hard for me to imagine doing that; the tense is part of the flow of the story for me ... it would be like randomly changing a character's name.
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11/5/11 04:00 (UTC)But I think I've seen what you're talking about - stories that randomly shift between past and present from sentence to sentence. And yeah, I have no idea about that one. I'm pretty sure I don't do that. Actually, it's hard for me to imagine doing that; the tense is part of the flow of the story for me ... it would be like randomly changing a character's name.