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Finding Your Voice: First Person Present Tense

Posted by Peta on Oct 2, 2009 in All, Blog, Writer's Kit, Writing | 5 comments

Table of contents for Finding Your VoiceFinding Your Voice: First Person Present Tense Earlier this week, my friend Livia posted about the pros and cons of first person present tense on her blog, and the comments discussion started me thinking about something I struggle with: voice. For me, the major problem with voice is that, in any piece of writing, there are at least two voices to consider – the character/narrator’s voice and the author’s voice. Enter first person present...