#writersCoffeeClub Apr. 4: Do you switch between past and present tense? How do you make it work?

Present tense: generates a sense of immediacy, useful for action sequences, but also for regular narrative with uncertainty about the future.

Past tense: conveys certainty about the past.

Now, writing fiction in *future* tenses is stunt writing!

(And yes, I've done all three.)

@cstross when I was a preteen, I my english class said that you can't write fiction in a future tense, which annoyed enough that I had to go write some fiction set in the future tense just to prove that you obviously can

@foone @cstross

Well now you've got us going, we want to see it!