#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.04.04 —Do you switch between past and present tense? How do you make it work?

Logic says this question is asking about narration. That's easy, I never narrate stories in present tense. In dialogue, a narrator might report to someone what they are doing at the moment, which would demand present tense. More often though, the narrator might relate a story that happened in the past, switching to the past of the past to do so. I generally switch to the simple past once the narrator establishes the time in that passage. Same goes for more complex convolutions that require more complex tense "situations."

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