You're a one-man shift in the weather

[brilligspoons]

For the last few weeks I haven't been able to wrap my head around the Marvel ladies BBMU at all, and I could not for the life of me figure out why. Until this morning, that is, when I was all let's try writing in present tense okay OH THERE WE GO. Bam, like, three handwritten pages of plot development that will need editing but aren't all that terrible. I'm glad I had this breakthrough 4 weeks before final drafts are due and not, you know, the day before. It's the little victories that get to me.

I don't understand what it is about past tense that makes me dread writing. It feels...heavy. In a bad way. To me, at least. And I don't mind reading it at all, so it's not like I have an overall problem with it. Maybe it's that writing in present tense makes me feel immersed in the action, which in turn makes it easier for me to figure out where characters and plots are going? IDK, I'm terrible at vocalizing this shit. Does this happen for anyone else, or is it just me?

Uh. Anyway. This has been a post about tenses.