Since I tend to go with the past tense, myself, I also wonder when, exactly, we're telling the story from. It changes from post to post for me, as some of them I think of more as narratives, and some of them I think of more as diary entries, which is part of why I sometimes blithely ignore tense, because I write as though R. is reflecting back on what just happened to her as well as looking forward to the future, rather than reporting those reflections from some point in the future.
I would tend to go with what seems best from the reader's point of view, which is probably a more consistent use of tense. Although I still think maybe we can make exceptions for things like truisms, since we probably don't have those very often.
And all this academic technical discussion has probably gone on long enough. Sabrina's probably thinking "What the hell are you people doing?! Shut up!"
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Date: 2008-07-01 07:06 pm (UTC)From:I would tend to go with what seems best from the reader's point of view, which is probably a more consistent use of tense. Although I still think maybe we can make exceptions for things like truisms, since we probably don't have those very often.
And all this academic technical discussion has probably gone on long enough. Sabrina's probably thinking "What the hell are you people doing?! Shut up!"