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When Is Your Narrator?: Picking the Right Tense
What to do with tense? I wrote about this briefly a few months ago, in the context of narrative mode, and I mentioned a few […]
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Should You Always Avoid the Verb “To Be”?
A fundamental rule of style is that you should avoid the verb “to be,” preferring instead strong, descriptive verbs that show, rather than tell. As […]
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Making Sense of Narrative Mode (and Tense)
Sometimes writers talk about what “tense” they’re writing in: third-person past, first-person present, or whatever. This is actually called “narrative mode,” not just tense. The […]
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