#past tense
Story of Dinosaurs, written by David Eastman, illustrated by Joel Snyder. 1982.
[id: two pages of watercolor illustrations of ichthyosaurs, dinosaurs which look somewhat like dolphins and somewhat like fish. The second page is captioned “Otros animales extraños vivían en el mar. Algunos se parecían a los peces.” (“Other strange animals lived in the sea. Some of them looked like fish.”) /end id]
HAND ON MY HEART. HAND ON MY STUPID HEART
ross gay / susan sontag / unknown / richard siken / warsan shire / lana del ray / tturing / hera lindsay bird / richard siken
does anyone have a hack for keeping track of tense in a story? any software that will flag subject-verb disagreement across a paragraph? I have made the
mistakeexperimental choice of using past, present, and future tense together in the same story and I might go a little insane.Use the free trial period for ProWritingAid?
Tense Advice (or, rather, advice on using tense in writing):
- The Pros and Cons of Writing a Novel in Present Tense (Writer’s Digest)
- Writing Tenses: 5 Tips for Past, Present, Future(NowNovel)
- Writing Exercises: 10 Fun Tense Workouts“ (NowNovel)
- Present Tense & How to Choose (Writing Questions Answered)
- Choosing Past Tense vs Present Tense and Sticking to It (Writing Questions Answered)