Fiction Craft Blog

When telling a story or writing a factual narrative in English, you have two main tenses you can use: present tense and past tense. Here are two examples: I walk to the castle and speak to the dragons I walked to the castle and spoke to the dragons In English, past tense is standard for fiction . This means its use is not stylistically marked. Writers have another option, too – the present tense . The tense used affects the reader experience: here's how. Use of the past tense