I decided to write a fic in present tense once, just for the hell of it... and since then, I haven't been able to write past tense. At all. I try, and I'm slipping back into present within a few paragraphs. And I end up having to stop and think just how the hell to conjugate in past tense, which I never used to have to do.
Present tense is evil. Once it's managed to sink its teeth into you, it won't let go.
(Of course, when I'm writing something that's not fic, my tenses wander all over the place... and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Frelling grammar.)
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Date: 2003-12-22 06:33 am (UTC)Present tense is evil. Once it's managed to sink its teeth into you, it won't let go.
(Of course, when I'm writing something that's not fic, my tenses wander all over the place... and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Frelling grammar.)