Present tense does create a sense of the unfolding moment that suits the sense of reenacting an interesting event, so personally I would lean towards that. I hope this helps. Just remember whichever tense you’re using to have a narrative link that clarifies that the narration is now crossing over into the dream description (in my example above, it’s the words ‘But then I remembered the dream I had). To help reframe anxiety as an ally not an enemy, Future Tense takes a deep dive into the emotion itself. ‘Anxiety is very different to fear,’ says Dennis-Tiwary. ‘Fear is the certainty that something bad is happening to you. Anxiety is about uncertainty; it’s the feeling that something bad could happen, but might not. It’s the discrepancy between where you are and where you want to be.’ So you’re anxious about failing your exams. About that lump. Finding your first job. ‘Anxiety is designed to feel bad – your heart races, your blood vessels contract – so you sit up and listen,’ she says. ‘But unlike fear, anxiety contains hope. Our dopamine levels increase – that’s the feelgood hormone that happens when we’re rewarded.’ The distant prospect of acing those exams, of getting a clean bill of health or landing your chosen career is the dopamine talking. Anxiety can focus the mind, drive you to revise harder, to see a doctor, to seek new pathways towards your chosen career. ‘It’s a horrible emotion, it feels terrible,’ says Dennis-Tiwary. ‘But it’s a beautiful emotion, too.’ Le Guin raises a good point about writing tenses.Le Guin describes the downside of telling a story almost exclusively in present tense: It all rather sounds alike…it’s bland, predictable, risk-free. All too often, it’s McProse. The wealth and complexity of our verb forms is part of the color of the language. Using only one tense is like having a whole set of oil paints and using only pink. Le Guin, Steering the Craft But when his crimes are discovered by a law enforcement robot who longs to be human he finds an opportunity to get out. Or will the past inevitably catch up with him?

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I thought that the novel was very well plotted, building to a dramatic finale and found Hugh’s vision of the future fascinating. I read the book in just a couple of days and thoroughly enjoyed it. This was an interesting read, the characters were great and I really enjoyed the plot. I look forward to more from the author in the future as this was an enjoyable read. Lesson by lesson, this book provides detailed instruction for the 12 tenses in English-past tenses, present tenses, and future tense. For each tense, there are definitions, usages, structures, examples, and exercises. As readers, we are that the narrator knows lots of information about past events that they will be feeding to us throughout the book.There is often a sense of familiarity andreassurance in knowing that the events have already happened, and the outcome has been decided, which is part of the reason why past tenseis popular with readers.Don’t limit yourself. If you’ve always written in past tense, try writing a new piece in present tense to see how it changes your writing. Enjoy experimenting! But, in a way, anxiety also acts like a good friend. It tells us something – maybe something we don’t want to hear, but something important nevertheless. It warns us about potential consequences of our actions, outcomes that could happen in an uncertain future. Alfie: Yes, we spoke earlier. We’re going to do a bike race so we want to plan our training schedule.

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This memory recollection doesn’t feel forced and doesn’t disrupt the flow of writing in any way,which shows that such a device works particularly well when used in conjunction with past tense writing. That’s not to say that when you are writing in present tense you cannot use these devices, it’s just that they can appear a little clumsier or forced if not used carefully. Writing In Present Tense I was part of the problem, however well-intentioned, until I started to wake up about a decade ago and began thinking, ‘Wait a second. What are we saying to people?’ The idea that anxiety is something to manage or eradicate, a habit to be broken, is wrong and actually doing us harm. It’s literally a recipe for more anxiety.’ So what do you do when you feel that kind of useless anxiety? The best – and perhaps only – option is to set it aside for later.He closed his eyes, squeezing his legs together. His mother looked uncertain, lost and confused and the men forced her into the car as easily as they would a weary collie dog. But this was not really happening, he knew: it was a memory – part of it must have been one of the Daydreams – and it happened not to his mother but to him. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub Thank you for sharing this interesting question. I can’t see any reason why you couldn’t begin and end on present. As long as the cuts between present and past are clear/signaled to your reader it should be fine. For example: