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Topic: First Person, Present Tense, and No Backstory. Can it work? (Read 6661 times)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh
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Re: First Person, Present Tense, and No Backstory. Can it work?
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Quote from: novium on March 01, 2008, 04:53:27 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?
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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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