It's one thing when your writing is going well, and you're on a roll, tossing chapters off with the ease of Carrie Bradshaw-esque bon mots about shoes, but what do you do when it's not going well, when the thought of sitting down to your favored writing device is as uncomfortable to imagine as getting out of a warm, cosy bed on a chilly morning? What do you do?
Daily Archives: May 13, 2008
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Friend-of-the-blog Jean O. writes, "I have heard a lot of smack talk about using the present tense when writing a novel. Yet, I see it used frequently in chick lit and find that it works quite well for me as a reader. Is this tense (and point of view) something that agents are on the lookout for or secretly despise?"