And I'm envious of all the really old stuff you've got going on over there XD
As for writing - I love tense switches. The Elphin fic I have in progress uses past and present, at least in the current draft. I'm also really a big fan of train-of-thought introspection with run on sentences, though I've only broken that out a couple times in fic.
And you're definitely right. Sometimes, it works to be really close and tightly wound in the character's perspective. Other times, a more distant approach is better, or tying it into the perspective of another character instead of the one you're writing "about".
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And I'm envious of all the really old stuff you've got going on over there XD
As for writing - I love tense switches. The Elphin fic I have in progress uses past and present, at least in the current draft. I'm also really a big fan of train-of-thought introspection with run on sentences, though I've only broken that out a couple times in fic.
And you're definitely right. Sometimes, it works to be really close and tightly wound in the character's perspective. Other times, a more distant approach is better, or tying it into the perspective of another character instead of the one you're writing "about".