Oh lawd, this is something I do all the time so I understand how it happens; but it is also something I'm very careful about fixing before I let the story out into the wilds. But no, I don't know what faulty switch in my brain puts the tense change there, because I know it's wrong as soon as I read it. I've never really discovered a pattern to it.
I think for a lot of fanfic this goes in the same bucket as random POV changes (which drives me nuts): inexperience/ignorance. Everybody has to learn sometime, I guess, but I do get the feeling that a lot of writers aren't interested in learning at all. *sigh*
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11/5/11 09:47 (UTC)I think for a lot of fanfic this goes in the same bucket as random POV changes (which drives me nuts): inexperience/ignorance. Everybody has to learn sometime, I guess, but I do get the feeling that a lot of writers aren't interested in learning at all. *sigh*