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Re: First Person, Present Tense, and No Backstory. Can it work?
« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2008, 06:15:52 PM »
but are they finishing it, that is the question. I couldn't. I found it too distracting.

I don't think it would have gone into as many reprints as it has if the word-of-mouth on it was not largely positive, so lots of people must be.
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Re: First Person, Present Tense, and No Backstory. Can it work?
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2008, 06:34:33 AM »

People who read my short story Tessellation seemed to like the method -- or at least be involved enough in the story that they didn't notice.
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