I came across this excellent post on Chris, the Story Reading Ape’s blog and thought it interesting. Such good advice.

Here is some of what Jaq D. Hawkins has to say.

I recently came across an article offering advice about choosing past, present or future tense and first, second or third person pov. I didn’t finish reading the article after I got to a part that said first person works best in present tense.

No. It doesn’t.

In fact, many people like myself refuse to read books written in first person present tense, despite the growing number of books on the market, mostly self-published, written that way by young, mainly Romance authors.

There will be people who disagree with my opinion on this. 

What are your opinions on tense? Do you like present tense? And what about second person?

If you’ve been and read the rest of this post, do you agree or disagree with Jaq?

Please answer in the comments box.

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