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@obrian-of-the-surface-world

Thanks man, I might check it out.

@emily-waldorf

The Girl Who Could See by Kara Swanson is a first person present tense book alternating with first person past tense. It made sense, but I think it could easily have gone south. If you’re careful I think you could make it work.

Alrighty, I might take a look at that book. And yes, that’s what I’m worried about. I’m thinking that playing with tenses like that can easily exasperate a reader.

I have written first person present tense for short stories. If you think it would be helpful, I would gladly share some with you.

Sure, send one over, I’ll check it out.

@rose-colored-fancy

Also, your narrator will be ridiculously unreliable. They might even say something that’s outright untrue because their opinion is so subjective.

Good point, I’ll keep that in mind.

I wouldn’t change the tenses unless it was actually happening in the past, otherwise, it’ll definitely get confusing.

Alrighty, that’s the main thing I was wanting to know, and it seems that it’s just too strange. I suppose my options are to have third person present povs, make it all past tense, or remove the third person povs. We’ll see.