: Re: Use of 'Now' in past tense The prologue of my story is past tense, then the rest will be present tense. I cannot figure how to word a sentence correctly to take out 'now' or to make it

Novice here.. but what about.

A simple way ( but could be missed by reader.) Make everything present and then push the present again in the last sentence.. Using 'is' and dropping 'had'

Rayanne found out she was pregnant shortly before she got sick. She is five months pregnant.

Another way is to be declarative and obvious. I changed to 6 months for accuracy of the sentence :)

Rayanne found out she was pregnant shortly before she got sick. Six months later she is starting to show.

Ps. I dropped the Now as it doesnt seem a good word to use.

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