Reflections on Point of View and Tense

 In my last post, I shared a few thoughts on guidelines for writing a short story. As I am not good at following orders, or rules, I have broken all those guidelines at one time or another, but nonetheless, they can at least help as a self-editing tool if the story you are writing doesn't work.I have just completed the first draft of my latest short story. Not having written a short story in