Kate's Week 10

I know it's late, but better late than never. :)

Spring Break is a whirl wind! I really want to get a lot of work done on my story, but that doesn’t seem to be happening so far. I am really worried about turning in a copy of my first full draft next week! I am not ready!!!

I have been working on brainstorming ideas for the next date in my story as a way of procrastination-but still getting things moving in the write direction.

I Still keep putting in and then deleting new introductions to my story that will not only give some dating history for Stef but will also help define the structure for tenses throughout the story. Write now the story still jumps back and forth in tenses and I really want to nail down how I am going to structure the tenses of the story during spring break.

I really wanted the story to be in past and present tense, but it does not seem to be working very well. I have been advised to put the entire story in past and then in present, then look at the two versions and see which one works better. I know it’s a good idea, I just don’t want to take all the time and frustration putting my entire story in present then again in past tense ‘just to see’ if it will work. But hello! How are you going to know unless you try it? Right? Okay, so I give. I am going to put my entire story in present and in past tense and see what happens.

My original idea for tenses was to have the story be in present tense where everything is happening real time, but them Stef would come home from her dates and re-live them with Trin (obviously in past tense). But I kept running into issues because you would not always tell your roommate EVERYTHING that happened on the date. But if I don’t tell Trin about the date, how are the readers going to get the information? That’s when I got the idea to have the story in past tense and reflect back on each date and the whole time the dating spree was happening.

However when I write it comes out in this blended tense kerfuffle. Hopefully putting the entire story in one tense will help me see where past and present are working and where they are not.

Wish me luck!