Timeline for Writing a novel past tense confusion
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| Dec 25, 2017 at 12:05 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
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| Nov 25, 2017 at 11:06 | answer | added | CJ Sheu | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 25, 2017 at 9:46 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Descriptions of people in a story refer to the time in which the events were happening, whether that is a hundred years ago or yesterday. 'John was kind' is how the other characters experienced him; it is not ambiguous. Sometimes, though, an author may tell a story through the eyes of one character and have them tell the reader that things are different now. | |
| Nov 24, 2017 at 15:43 | history | edited | Zanko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2017 at 15:33 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 24, 2017 at 15:33 | comment | added | Peter Shor | This is the phrase John is brave yesterday, backshifted so it is in the past. It doesn't make much sense in the present tense, and it makes equally little sense in the past. | |
| Nov 24, 2017 at 15:29 | history | asked | Zanko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |