#tense problems

[lunacatriona]

Of all the idiotic things I've done recently, writing around 15,000 in the present tense before deciding it would probably be better in the past tense is up there with missing the bus because I wasn't wearing my glasses and I couldn't make out the number 🙃🤦‍♀️😂

[askcarmina]

salty nope

{ Send “salty nope” for a cut post description of one of my pet RP peeves }

Some of my pet peeves have altered slightly since working on Discord. One or two lines used to drive me bonkers. But there a reply can be simply a question that’s two sentences. BUT I still hate the useless replies. If you just reply to what I wrote, without giving me somewhere to go with it, I instantly lose all motivation to keep going. If you’re busy, or not feeling it, don’t reply. I’d rather you drop it (but please let me know you’re no longer interested) than give me a crap reply I can’t work with!

[barbex]

freyamaat replied to your post “Aww shit, Solid Fluidity is in past tense! Past tense, that’s so old...”

I've started shifting over into present tense and it's super weird because I keep forgetting in some fics. >.< It's terrible.

Right? I never had that problem before! I used to always write in past tense and never switched. But now I have fallen in love with present tense, it feels so immediate, so lively! And now I have tense switches happening all the time and it infuriates me!

[null11]

((WHY DO I WANT TO POST EVERYTHING IN PRESENT TENSE STOP IT BRAIN STOP IT.))

[thelastrealthing-blog]

The taste of danger on your skin dear, I'll leave bite marks from where I tried to squeeze it out.

This is a line in this little prose poem I'm working on and it's tearing at me.  There's something about the elements in it that I can't abandon, but the tense is all wrong. The current taste and the future marking do not add up to a past attempt. I could change the marking to a past action but in the future it sounds like a threat and the narrator is a huge threat.

It's times like these that I miss my old writing friends.

And I considered changing squeezed, a generally bodily fluid kind of gross, to sucked but then sucking skin just sounds like a straight out hickey and it's not about hickeys at all. But it's also not about vampires, vampires, vampires and they're whole thirst for blood scene. On it's own this line looks like it was crapped out of a Twilight fanfic.

[latin-student-problems]