Before Sending Your Manuscript To An Editor / Part 2–Use of Time

Note from the Editor: This second installment of Before Sending a Manuscript to an Editor series offers basic editing tips around time use of time. For Part 1: Self-Editing Techniques Click here.

Stay tuned for Part 3 next week…

Clean Up Your Use of Time

This second post on self-editing revolves around the use of time. In the next post, I will write about time sequencing and flashbacks.

1. The historical present looks like the past, but it isn’t.

What tense are you going to use to narrate...