Maybe this will guilt me into actually finishing

[ultranos]

(Working) Title: The Substance of Things Hoped For
Still Alternative (Working) Title: You'll Burn in Hell While They're Digging You Out
Chance of Title Change Between the Two Before the End: still about 50%
Current Word Count: ~4000
POV Character Status: catatonic
Meanest Thing I've Done So Far: busy signal
Status of the LHC: On
Current Death Count: about 6 billion and counting
Thing That's Eating My Brain That Is Not This: "Reckoning" AU that abyssinia4077 and I swear we're not writing (now) [We clearly should not be allowed to play without adult supervision.]
Irritation of the Night: Realizing I switched from past to present tense at a section break, and that present is working better, which means I have to rewrite the beginning 3000 words.

ETA: On second thought, rewriting the last bit as past tense works too. Oh thank god.

Comments

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

so long as there's a section break, why does it matter that they use different tenses?
(I thought the rule was "don't change tenses in the middle of a paragraph")

anything I can do to help?

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the rule actually is. It just jarred me as I reread through it, and if it jarred me, something was wrong.

Perhaps 3AM writing is a bad idea.

Encouragement is nice. :) I just need to get through this now, because later on, school is going to eat my soul.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Tense changes between sections are jarring, even if one section is a flashback. You can get away with it, though.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Thing That's Eating My Brain That Is Not This: "Reckoning" AU that [info]abyssinia4077 and I swear we're not writing (now) [We clearly should not be allowed to play without adult supervision.]

*sticks fingers in ears*
*hums loudly*
*hums louder*

(World ends October 6th)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I could, but none of it was a flashback. It was just me being tired enough to not notice I'd swapped tenses until I'd written a couple hundred words. :/

It's fixed now.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

*hums along right there with you, very loudly*

(It totally does)