2) Present tense can be slightly jarring subconsciously, because everything is happening ‘now’. People have a small difficulty mentally tracking events when there is no ‘past/present/future’ to follow along with. It isn’t confusing; it’s just a quirk of how humans’ thought processes automatically want to track time. (this is a generalization, obviously; not everybody dislikes it)
Those days when I still could write, I used past tense only until my beta then said I should use present tense instead and I found it a lot more interesting!
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1) People are used to reading past tense.
2) Present tense can be slightly jarring subconsciously, because everything is happening ‘now’. People have a small difficulty mentally tracking events when there is no ‘past/present/future’ to follow along with. It isn’t confusing; it’s just a quirk of how humans’ thought processes automatically want to track time. (this is a generalization, obviously; not everybody dislikes it)
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