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Let’s talk about analeptic passages in present tense narrative.
Let’s talk about analeptic passages in present tense narrative.
This is inspired by an editorial letter I sent a couple weeks ago, but it’s not specifically about that – as I said to the author at the time, this is a very, very common issue. I’m confident it’s come up in 100% of present-tense manuscripts I’ve edited.
So: we talk about “present tense” and “past tense” narrative, but the truth is every text jumps back and forth in time, to narrate events before the rolling “now” of the story, or anticipate coming events.
