http://www.one-story.com/blog/?p=3438 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.one-story.com/blog/?p=3438&cpage=1#comment-16049 Homer Jones Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:45:29 +0000 http://www.one-story.com/blog/?p=3438#comment-16049 I almost stopped reading at the first paragraph. The question mark in it comes at the end of a declarative sentence and there is a tense shift in the last sentence (is/was). I told myself to let it go, and I’m glad I did. “Hilarious…” is a wonderful story. The author explains in the Q&A section that he did a rewrite involving a tense and POV shift. He also said he learned from the “generous editors” that writers shouldn’t use questions. It leaves the reader with questions of confidence in the writer. Could it be that Stephen changed the question to a declaration without changing the punctuation? And why didn’t he do a search for the word ‘is’ after shifting tenses? Shouldn’t careful, rather than generous, editing find these sorts of problems? Have all my questions given you doubt about my confidence?

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