#adigeon

I've always felt like present tense is more of a self-inself kind of writing. I mostly write past tense out of habit.

hazel-athena

I write about 99% of my stuff in present tense, and it is literally just personal preference for me. Same way I tend to default to third person point of view instead of first.

academicgangster

I used to stick to past tense because that's what I'd always read, but now I write exclusively in present tense because you can get away with SO MANY MORE VERBS that way! Somehow they all sound more visceral and in-the-moment than they would in the past tense, which suits my preferred (close/intimate) narrative distance.

tramstrams 

I write past tense out of habit and preference (the preference definitely grew out of the habit though). I can't even really say what influenced me though, or like the reason for it, it just "felt right". Which is why I was so surprised when six months after I posted my first mag7 fic I went back and looked at it and discovered it was written in present tense. I really don't know why that is, but I think it's because the first line of that fic came to me in present tense and it was what inspired that fic so I had to just go with it. On a similar note, one of my fics for mag7week last year (the one I named something like “all the hearts that we have forsaken” or something it’s a terrible title, and a kinda depressing fic), the first lines for that one were present tense as well, and I wrote the first bit in present tense before I could stop myself, and then had to go back and rewrite it because I knew it was going to be a long fic and there was no way I would be able to write present tense in a longer fic.

adigeon

100% based on what i just find myself writing in whenever i try out a snippet of an idea i’ve been thinking about. sometimes after 500 words or so i'll change my mind but usually present vs. past feels pretty obvious to me (i feel like i write more in present even though i prefer writing in past for whatever reason)

thesummoningdark

I got into the habit of writing in present tense because of rp

fontainebleau22

I always write in present tense, and if I post a fic in past tense then it’s been written in present and changed later. I think it’s the immediacy of the story for me: it feels artifical to narrate a story in the past, when it’s over and dead; telling a story in the present means that it happens as it goes along. It never occurred to me when I started writing that this was any kind of a big deal - I’ve been astonished at the number of people I see who declare a preference for reading in one tense or another (or in one person or another). But then I’ve always read a lot at the experimental end of literature, so I don’t feel strongly that there’s only one way to do these things.

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irl wheezing

it's so good!

I’m four songs in and god it’s so fucking good.

Also I have become a parody of myself because a friend asked since into the spiderverse is on demand if I wanted to watch it and the actual literal words “I can’t.  I have to listen to the new Mountain Goats album” came out of my mouth.

*\o/* Eeeeeeee, GO YOU!!!!!

Will I do it?  Probably not!  Will I have fun?  Maybe!  Let’s make an attempt!

adigeon replied to your post “So I’m going to attempt nanowrimo.  I want to finish Finn Malbus au...”

"I say short be we all know it’s going to be 20k and make me wish for death" just @ me next time SAME every time i start something!!!

i love this!!!!!!!

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Jeeeeeeeeeesus Christ

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That last one!!! ����

@three-tailed-fox asked for this one too :)

My first OTP is probably Han/Leia. Not from the “I must relentlessly analyze every second of their interactions” sort of shipping standpoint that characterized my later shipping, but from a “well, obviously” perspective. 

But my first OTP that I *obsessed* about is Mulder/Scully. I have memories of hanging out on the AOL forums around the time of the evolution of the term ‘ship, all the tiny little details that conclusively proved that they loved each other, etc. etc. Still remember listening to the .wav file of Mulder telling Scully to run in Pusher and carefully trying to parse if he was actually saying “I love you” in there ;)

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