I find POV far more important than tense, as well. I... do not hate first pov, but I don't particularly like it. I find it limiting in the extreme. But what tense it's in has less impact.
I started my big bang yesterday! And I was trying to write in past tense, I really REALLY was. And it was all in present and no matter what I did I couldn't make it be past and then I was all, WTFF? Can I do 20k of all present tense? Would people read it? Would people even notice? And then I was all, obvs I can't write in past tense at all, so it will have to be present. Is this wrong?
Now I see nobody really gives so long as it's in the POV they prefer ;-)
Do you know where I can find one of those word count bar thingies?
Yeah, some stories just don't want to be written a certain way. Sometimes it's whatever chemical flipped in your brain, too. Either way, so long as it's not past perfect, we're good.
I don't know on the word bar thingies! But I can ask someone who uses them all the time, hang on.
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Date: 2010-06-03 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-03 06:28 pm (UTC)Now I see nobody really gives so long as it's in the POV they prefer ;-)
Do you know where I can find one of those word count bar thingies?
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Date: 2010-06-03 06:31 pm (UTC)I don't know on the word bar thingies! But I can ask someone who uses them all the time, hang on.
I'm so glad you're starting!!
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Date: 2010-06-03 06:32 pm (UTC)\o/
I googled word bar count thingies and got a VERY Random assortment of things including how not to pick up a woman in a bar.