tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675785862152144030.post3571810223399509758..comments2023-11-28T04:26:08.162-06:00Comments on Ravens and Writing Desks: Divergent by Veronica Roth // Not The Hunger GamesSophiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113180708896008365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675785862152144030.post-65897041393186647612014-12-08T16:48:55.234-06:002014-12-08T16:48:55.234-06:00Ah - but movies and books are two different media....Ah - but movies and books are two different media. And in the Hobbit, present tense was being used as description to make you feel as though Middle Earth still existed. But the narration was all in past tense.<br /><br />You know, I don't mind present tense. I read TONS of books in present tense. And I wrote this post back before I read a lot of YA, so I've gotten a bit more used to it in the meantime. Sometimes, though, if it's done wrong, the present tense can get flat through its immediacy, and not have the fullness of a story told in past tense. But if done well, present tense is gripping.Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00113180708896008365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675785862152144030.post-12104486103932282962014-12-06T20:07:26.346-06:002014-12-06T20:07:26.346-06:00I respect everyone you is able to write a story in...I respect everyone you is able to write a story in present tense. You're so super close to the protagonist, that you feel like looking inside her head. And I couldn't write something like that, because I need at least two different perspectives to watch the story from different sides...<br />Also I think, a story <i>can</i> be told in present tense, otherwise movies wouldn't work at all. A book in present tense I just more like a movie than a normal book. It comments the exact moment, not like in a tale. Although I understand, that present tense can be confusing (when I read The Hunger Games that was also a big trouble in my mind) but I think there is still a difference from the present to the future and that is, that it's still at least <i>now</i> and that it's not predicting. By the way, in The Lord of the Ring there are also passages in present tense, like "Hobbit aren't very common nowadays" (don't remember the exact quote) and a story tells about the past, but is told in the now. And everything I just wrote may be in present tense, but actually is already something, that happened in the past...windspritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06478484772242332262noreply@blogger.com