![]() ![]() Location in Time – Using the past tense, you also need to consider where the narrator is telling the story from.This is true both for first person and third person narrators. This gives the narrator some perspective about those events and allows the narrator to have some hindsight. Distance –The narrator has more distance from the events in the story it because they happened in the past. ![]() The trick here is practice, practice, practice. This could lead to writing that sounds a bit hokey or gimmicky. “Once upon a time there was a…”) This is not to say that all present tense sounds weird, but for some writers, it may not come as naturally as past tense. Our ears are more used to hearing stories told in past tense (e.g.
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