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Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering The Craft

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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The Craft History of First Person Point of View

I would definitely encourage writers to look at your book reviews, also as places where they can see your craft thought in context of a specific given piece of art. Present tense narration is now taken for granted by many fiction writers because everything they read from internet news to texting is in the present tense. Past tense narration easily implies previous times and extends into the misty reaches of the subjunctive,. The pretense of a continuous eyewitness account admits little relativity of times, little connection between events.

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