Hah hah, your struggles with the lantern are amusing ... I don't think I heard that you broke the lighter too.
Doing a write-up in the present tense is an interesting idea. I'm still catching up in my own journal of the trip (based on those notes you saw me taking) but I'm definitely treating it as all one piece. Maybe soon I'll try writing a journal entry in the present tense, to see what kinds of emphasis it invites.
I find the present tense harder to write in mechanically ... words tend to be longer, and sound more similar. It's harder to avoid that mealy-mouthed repetition of syllables that made most of my older stuff so cantakerous and jerky. Um. Yeah.
But the reward is a sense of immediacy. In my opinion, it lends a kind of suspense to the narrative because each moment seems like the _current_ moment.
But there's really no way around bad narrative, so my struggle goes on :)
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Date: 2002-08-28 05:12 pm (UTC)Doing a write-up in the present tense is an interesting idea. I'm still catching up in my own journal of the trip (based on those notes you saw me taking) but I'm definitely treating it as all one piece. Maybe soon I'll try writing a journal entry in the present tense, to see what kinds of emphasis it invites.
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Date: 2002-08-28 10:00 pm (UTC)But the reward is a sense of immediacy. In my opinion, it lends a kind of suspense to the narrative because each moment seems like the _current_ moment.
But there's really no way around bad narrative, so my struggle goes on :)