Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Should you write your novel in present tense? gourav grammar I need learn English . How can Its Possibel. don"t know. But i try My best. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=21291#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=21291#Comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:35:50 GMT Mickey D grammar Over the past two years I have been writing a novel. Present v. past tense is an issue that I have wrestled with until recently, when I picked up a book, "The Dogs of Babel". Written in present tense, it really rings loud and clear. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=21153#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=21153#Comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:50:58 GMT Anu grammar Thank you for the English Tense Chart - it is indeed extremely concise and very useful to those of us who have difficulty maintaining tense ina piece of writing. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=20022#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=20022#Comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:56:17 GMT Saoirse grammar One of the first novels written in the present tense was 'All Quiet on the Western Front' published in 1928 and in the English translation in 1930. Here is an excellent example of the present tense being used to invite the reader to paticipate in the vivid and horrifying events that are described. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=19986#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=19986#Comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:04:21 GMT MArilen Carlos grammar Thank you i got some ideas how to use present and past tense. Please email me everyday.Im really intense to read more stories. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=19541#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=19541#Comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:04:27 GMT Brooke grammar Can anyone recommend a good children's book/ short story in the future tense? I'm teaching english as a second language and need a good children's story written in the future tense. thanks! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=18304#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=18304#Comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:24:32 GMT saran,tamilnadu grammar your tense very useful for us http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=17634#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=17634#Comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:15:54 GMT Hizbullah Sahil grammar i am good in english and i am trying to improve my english and i have some problems in grammer and using of tenses. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=16986#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=16986#Comments Fri, 15 May 2009 14:30:09 GMT mic-mac grammar By the way- the tense chart was truly appreciated - even in light of what I just wrote underneath. Every other page I visited, including wikipedia, didn't even have this simple breakdown. The internet baffles- is non-commercial, yet indispensable, information really left up to the bloggers and people who care(?) enough about a subject? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=16946#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=16946#Comments Wed, 13 May 2009 04:10:27 GMT Mic-Mac grammar Knowing your tenses is important, yet telling a good story is the whole point. Examples books that jump around tenses like crazy "Tropic Of Capricorn", "On The Road", "The Favorite Game" by Leonard Cohen. Of course this is part of the reason they are sometimes dismissed by academics- but their effect on people can never be dismissed- their stories were still conveyed quite effectively. This "persnickediness" about tenses seems to be for rigid people who need rules to start to create. Sounds like an oxymoron if there ever was one. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=16945#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx?commentid=16945#Comments Wed, 13 May 2009 03:58:28 GMT Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:35:50 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/present-tense-novel.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us