: Re: Present tense novel with past tense flashbacks I'm currently writing a mystery novel in the third person present tense. I chose this to create more suspense as I like the idea that the reader

You have a valid reason to take on a difficult (but perhaps unnecessary) task. If your story is good ... Present tense fiction tends to sound like running commentary or stream of consciousness, which is fine. It dates me, perhaps, but Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson were award-winners in this realm. They work in more traditional tenses, too, but a page or two of perusal should be enough to tell if it's what you're looking for.

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: Where to put a reference to a figure or literature I am writing a master thesis and got confused by the location of the reference details. Example 1 : Should the reference be before the dot

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: Re: Present tense novel with past tense flashbacks I'm currently writing a mystery novel in the third person present tense. I chose this to create more suspense as I like the idea that the reader

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: There may be a way to bypass the system, but the default is for the first pages of the book to be the ones that show up on the Look Inside pages.

: Making modern references I'm working on a modern fiction drama in an urban setting. I'm trying to be real in terms of conversation threads--music, movies, drugs, etc. Here's my problem: I've

: Where to put a reference to a figure or literature I am writing a master thesis and got confused by the location of the reference details. Example 1 : Should the reference be before the dot

: How do existing covers compare to possible new ones? I have a fairly large collection of titles on Amazon, and I'm wondering whether I should by my own efforts replace them with covers I've

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