#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 Makes me think of this old Usenet post in which I speculate about using the future tense in interactive fiction: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.int-fiction/c/Gywgnbp-e6o/m/G8hV52gnFhoJ
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