Hi. I've been told that "editors are looking for 3rd person past tense right now, " for fictions. Is it true??? If it's true, how important is it to write in the format?
LOTTERY is first person and much is present tense.
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It's the story and the writing they are looking for IMHO
Hi. I've been told that "editors are looking for 3rd person past tense right now, " for fictions. Is it true??? If it's true, how important is it to write in the format?
The perfect and progressive tenses are part of past tense -- meaning a novel written in past tense would have places where past perfect or past progressive are used, and those tenses are the *correct* choice. You just need to understand the tenses and evaluate your sentences to see which is appropriate.For example, when I'm in the past tense, sometimes I wanted to use past perfect tense. But I wasn't sure how I go in and out of the two. Or when I was writing in present tense and I wanted to use present perfect.
And I do, but that's because I just don't enjoy reading present tense. That doesn't mean I *absolutely* won't read a novel written in present tense. I will, if the writing really grabs me. But it has to grab and not let go -- and that is hard to pull off.Maybe the above is not a good example, but I don't find it hard to read.