Post #3399483
2026-04-04 18:10 UTC
..."I was going to the store" or suchlike, and think, "This is a weird situation," not "This was a weird situation." But I'm not sure if that *truly* counts, because the dialogue tags are still said and thought, not says and thinks.
"I'm going to the store," she _said_. That's past tense, right? I accurately report the words she said in the past, even if she phrased them in present tense.
Anyway, that's the situation. 2/2]
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@kagan@wandering.shop 2026-04-05 16:55
#WritersCoffeeClub day 5: How can the physical form of the writing become part of the storytelling? One of my favorite books as a child was _The Monster at the End of This Book_, in which Grover, the blue muppet from _Sesame Street_, does everything he can to keep the reader from turning each page and eventually finishing the book. It was delightfully meta, and completely based on the physical form of a bound book.