Tenses and me

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A lot of people complain that I don't know my tenses. They say my tenses are wrong, and I should relearn them

"Hmmm... distressing because of the grammar, spelling and tense issues. XD

The meaning of the passage is a bit obscure as well."

"Ah, you are one of my favourite authors, if I ignore the grammar."


Well, they are wrong.
It's not that I make grammatical mistakes, I make them on purpose.

If I say
"I stood up and switch on the lights"
Don't tell me it should be "switched on the lights". I say it is "switch on the lights"
Your only option is to get used to it.

What I mean to say is, by the time you have read this sentence, I have already stood up. Now that you have caught up, you will see I am switching on the lights.

"That's a rather stylistic choice. XD Some have done it. But you have to be very descriptive to keep it interesting. Many people are most interested in dialogue. That's one of the best ways to get their attention, but to go the other way, you'd have to tap all their senses and make them feel they're where you're writing about."

"But when people get immersed in the writing they imagine it happening in real time. Doing it like that would add strange skips, no? The tense change would ruin immersion too."

What I want to show the world, is the passage of time,
They shall see what I want them to see, and what they want to see.

They can achieve immersion, if they follow the lord Tony and me, his apostle.

"I fell down, and I stand up."
The character here thought
Oh no, I fell,
After she fell down.
And she thought
I stand up
While she is standing up.

"But just by making it two sentences you can have the same thing without people complaining about grammar problems"

"That’s not how writing works. Everything either already happened, past tense, or everything is happening, present tense."

"No, that would just confuse the readers."

"Bro, that's bad."

Meh, I don't care. Get used to the grammar.

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    1. Czaech_Returns Jul 15, 2021
      Then it only meant not just dealing with you and the tenses, but tenses, pronouns and quoting.
    2. Agentt Jul 15, 2021
      @Czaech_Returns
      I found it, well first,
      I was quoting some other person there,
      Secondly,
      She really meant where instead of whom. The readers should feel like they are where I want them to be
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    3. Agentt Jul 15, 2021
    4. Czaech_Returns Jul 15, 2021
    5. Agentt Jul 15, 2021
    6. Czaech_Returns Jul 15, 2021
      "make them feel they're whom you're writing about." I guess it's not just the tenses but the pronouns as well.
    7. Agentt Jul 15, 2021
      Tri nee
      It took you 3 minutes to write that?
    8. Cerene Jul 15, 2021
      :blob_pompom:
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