This is not true. Charles Dickens' Bleak House, for instance, is written with half the narrative in 1st person past, the other half in 3rd person present. Coetzee's Disgrace is also 3rd person present.
And they remained consistant when a specific tense was being used right. They didn't write a sentence or paragraph in one tense and half in another right? Also as you say they are doing narrative or writing from a constant specific point of view. narration is bascally internal dialog or is a story being told from the character's point of view and they are doing the describing or telling of the story rather than the author telling the story about the characters.
Nothing looked liked this did it?.
Dean pulled the car to a stop and he gets out. Sam gathered up his computer and steps out of the car as well. Both brothers looked around and they see that people are acting strange. They go to the nearest person and asked them what is happening.
That is the kind of constant switch of tense within a sentance or paragraph that bothers me. It doesn't read right. Especially when it is the author telling us a story about the characters and things that happened to them in the story.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-01-01 12:00 am (UTC)And they remained consistant when a specific tense was being used right. They didn't write a sentence or paragraph in one tense and half in another right? Also as you say they are doing narrative or writing from a constant specific point of view. narration is bascally internal dialog or is a story being told from the character's point of view and they are doing the describing or telling of the story rather than the author telling the story about the characters.
Nothing looked liked this did it?.
Dean pulled the car to a stop and he gets out. Sam gathered up his computer and steps out of the car as well. Both brothers looked around and they see that people are acting strange. They go to the nearest person and asked them what is happening.
That is the kind of constant switch of tense within a sentance or paragraph that bothers me. It doesn't read right. Especially when it is the author telling us a story about the characters and things that happened to them in the story.