Post by account_disabled on Nov 29, 2023 22:52:27 GMT -5
How much can the strength of a sentence change - and in the long run also that of the entire story - based on the choice of timing of the action? When I reread my stories , I often correct the tense I used with a verb, because another one seems more effective. And the scene then acquires more vitality, even more credibility, I might say, because it sounds better, it sounds as if it were real. Narrating in the past… The past tense wins , obviously, combined with the imperfect , and they are also the ones I often use, because they are more immediate, I think, or perhaps due to a habit in telling stories. In short, who would dream of writing a story entirely in the present perfect tense? The police, as I expected , achieved nothing.
The emptiness around Phone Number Data There is a consecutio : the finite, certain action of the police which leads to nothing and the one which instead indicates a continuity in the action , in that case the thought of the character, who expected that result. He expected it over time, from the beginning to the end of the action. At dawn, standing on the cold steps of her porch, Ree Dolly smelled the coming rain and saw the meat. She hung from the trees on the opposite bank of the stream. One Cold Winter , Daniel Woodrell Same thing: Ree performed two actions, smelling the rain and seeing the meat. The flesh, however, continues with his action: that of hanging from the trees. Use the past perfect? I said before that it would be unusual to use this verb tense in a story. But let's give some examples. At dawn, standing on the cold porch steps, Ree Dolly had smelled the coming rain in the air and seen the meat.
That's how it seems to work, don't you think? But this is just a period, are we sure that an entire story continues to work? The police, as I expected , had achieved nothing. It works in this case too. However, perhaps it would only work if inserted into a dialogue, in which the character recounts an episode far back in time. «When I married Clara, I really didn't imagine that her parents would set up tents in our house. I told them several times to move out, but they even brought their bed into our room." Now, apart from that poor man's bad luck, that dialogue sounds good to me, like I would talk to a friend. …and narrate in the present tense It's a bit strange as a narrative, in my opinion, but in the novel I'm writing I'm using it a lot. I don't know why but it came naturally to me like this. The memory of what Ong showed us still doesn't leave me. I spent a sleepless night thinking about that extraordinary object far away on the horizon, its disturbing light, the mystery that surrounds it . In this case the present and perfect past coexist .
The emptiness around Phone Number Data There is a consecutio : the finite, certain action of the police which leads to nothing and the one which instead indicates a continuity in the action , in that case the thought of the character, who expected that result. He expected it over time, from the beginning to the end of the action. At dawn, standing on the cold steps of her porch, Ree Dolly smelled the coming rain and saw the meat. She hung from the trees on the opposite bank of the stream. One Cold Winter , Daniel Woodrell Same thing: Ree performed two actions, smelling the rain and seeing the meat. The flesh, however, continues with his action: that of hanging from the trees. Use the past perfect? I said before that it would be unusual to use this verb tense in a story. But let's give some examples. At dawn, standing on the cold porch steps, Ree Dolly had smelled the coming rain in the air and seen the meat.
That's how it seems to work, don't you think? But this is just a period, are we sure that an entire story continues to work? The police, as I expected , had achieved nothing. It works in this case too. However, perhaps it would only work if inserted into a dialogue, in which the character recounts an episode far back in time. «When I married Clara, I really didn't imagine that her parents would set up tents in our house. I told them several times to move out, but they even brought their bed into our room." Now, apart from that poor man's bad luck, that dialogue sounds good to me, like I would talk to a friend. …and narrate in the present tense It's a bit strange as a narrative, in my opinion, but in the novel I'm writing I'm using it a lot. I don't know why but it came naturally to me like this. The memory of what Ong showed us still doesn't leave me. I spent a sleepless night thinking about that extraordinary object far away on the horizon, its disturbing light, the mystery that surrounds it . In this case the present and perfect past coexist .