Coal Rivalry

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All the things Coal said, running through my head.

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Comments

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

I'd read that as like saying they're now writing in second person. Why they think present tense with some inconsistencies in both directions is called past tense is beyond the scope of betaing, but they at least claim it's a deliberate tense choice. It seems more plausible they didn't want to go through the trouble of changing it, but how would you prove someone's refusing to edit their fic rather than valid stylistic writing choices?

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

I really do not think that is the common sense interpretation of what they mean by saying they are writing second person. They are writing about a second person. That is not what they literally said but it is borne out by what they proceed to do and by other places where they've left out words.

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

"I am now going into second person" is way more wrong than "I took the majority of the edits with the exception of changing tenses since I think it worked best past tense". At least it's talking about tense either way rather than confusing point of view and number of characters. They even might've been trying to say that they refused to fix their "changing tenses" to be consistently in present tense because they thought having some past tense worked better.

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

No, they mean "I am now going into writing about a second person".

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

Not the point. Yes, they must have been trying to say that they were writing about another character because it's written in third. But even adding words in to try to make the sentence say something else, that's still not how people say they're going to write about another character. Occam's razor, they've seen other people say they're going into second person and copied the phrasing without understanding the meaning.