by geronimo_appleby
Usually really enjoy your stories, but in this one it is all in the present tense, which I find off-putting. This is about something that has happened, not something happening right now. Please go back to your usual very successful style and write in the past tense.
While I don't accept there's anything wrong with writing in the present tense - I did some asking and it seems to be a matter of opinion - it does seem to be the popular view that past tense is preferable.
The next 2 installments are in past tense.
GA use whatever tense suits your view of this story as you write it. It is your story. As a reader of SF and SFan and Historical Fiction I had no problem with the tense of this story, in fact it seemed that I was "in the moment" with Adam, while a past tense would have given it more of voyueristic feeling to my thinking.
Enjoy you writings always and look forward to the next installment.
Mike
While the writing is acceptable, the story is not interesting and lacks any warmth. I gave up part way through page 2.
another retarded comment from the asshole of LIT. Here's your offset dear annony to your 1 vote
Oh yes the randy boarding house mum. A fantasy of mine since I saw the movie Youngblood in the 80s. Very well done.