GODLING # 19: The Battle for New Troy

Scott Eiler seiler at eilertech.com
Fri Dec 10 19:24:20 PST 2010


On Dec 10, 1:53 pm, jvdsteen <jvdst... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> [MISC] GODLING # 19:  The Battle for New Troy
> by J. Vandersteen
...
> A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
> The last couple of issues have been written in the present tense, with
> short scenes and a low word count. This way I hope to give you the
> feeling you’re reading a fast-paced comic book. Also, it makes it
> easier to read it online. A nice fast read you can read as soon as
> it’s posted, giving you as much bang as I can for every word. Does it
> work?

The short-short format is great for my short-short attention span.
Feel free to put subplots in separate issues.

I use present tense in some of my own writing just because it's easier
to turn a summary into a story that way, but I have to watch out for
tense shift.




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