Without a doubt, deciding which tense to use in writing one's novel is an important decision for any author. ... I'm not sure I'd blame the present tense for the limpness of these books, however.

Think about why the present tense may or may not work in your own writing. Experiment with a paragraph in the present and past tense to see which feels best. It's up to you.

Online content written in the present tense is considerably more persuasive. Recent research unveils that, although people commonly narrate events in the past tense, conveying the information in ...

At the start of Gunnhild Øyehaug's Present Tense Machine, a mother misreads the word trädgård — Norwegian for garden — as tärdgård, a nonsensical word, as her young daughter plays nearby ...

Now, in her late thirties, she is trying to write a book called “Drifts.” “What I really wanted to write was my present tense, which seemed impossible,” Zambreno’s protagonist (not a ...