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Using tenses in a fictional journal
I'm writing a fictional story through the journal of a main character. It's in 1st POV and each chapter/entry recalls the events of the day. He's writing the story day-by-day as it's happening, rather ...
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Switching tense and point of view between the chapters [duplicate]
I'm writing a story told mostly in first person point of view in present tense where the narrator alternates between two characters from chapter to chapter.
I have gotten some critics about this ...
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Varying POV and tense
My novel is written in the third person. When changing POV between different scenes (or chapters), is it OK if the parts for different POV characters use different tenses: some - the past tense, and ...
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