I love experiments, and indulge in them a lot... with mixed success, in both my opinion and readers'. Heh. But yeah, a good beta (and Slanted Light is a really good 'un - she did my last one) can be a great sounding board for the more... experimental experiments ;)
The trickiest thing I've edited in ages was, I think one (not Pros)story in... second person FUTURE. With sort-of-flashbacks. That nearly blew both our minds - and both the writer and I are supposedly pro editors *g*. But hey, if nobody experimented it'd be a real shame, I think.
In one relatively new fandom (Supernatural), I'd say a HUGE majority of it is in the present tense, and I'm not sure if this is because of a few writers starting it and others following, or what. From discussion on some Pros forum or other (Pros-Lit? Can't remember) a whole lot of people were convinced it was 'rarely done well'. Maybe because traditionally, I think, relatively few Pros stories have been in the present tense although I seem to be seeing more and more.
And now I'm waffling and avoiding work. There's no bore like an editor getting onto favourite topics like tenses and... yeah.
Um - can I add you to my flist? Feel free to do likewise :)
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Date: 2006-12-10 01:07 pm (UTC)The trickiest thing I've edited in ages was, I think one (not Pros)story in... second person FUTURE. With sort-of-flashbacks. That nearly blew both our minds - and both the writer and I are supposedly pro editors *g*. But hey, if nobody experimented it'd be a real shame, I think.
In one relatively new fandom (Supernatural), I'd say a HUGE majority of it is in the present tense, and I'm not sure if this is because of a few writers starting it and others following, or what. From discussion on some Pros forum or other (Pros-Lit? Can't remember) a whole lot of people were convinced it was 'rarely done well'. Maybe because traditionally, I think, relatively few Pros stories have been in the present tense although I seem to be seeing more and more.
And now I'm waffling and avoiding work. There's no bore like an editor getting onto favourite topics like tenses and... yeah.
Um - can I add you to my flist? Feel free to do likewise :)