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Oh yeah...here's something my friends can drink to...Draft Magazine is looking for articles on, you guessed it, beer...so, go out and do that research this weekend for that next article...


DRAFT Magazine
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Let me know when the latex protection industry needs some fact finding studies...

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Hmm, I guess it really depends on personal preference. I use both, but it depends on how I want others to read it. Typically when I write from a limited first person viewpoint, I will use present tense, acting as if my character is experiencing things the same time the reader is. When writing in 3rd person (limited or omniscient) I fall into a past tense.

I've noticed that many writers will use past tense, as if 'retelling' a story that has already occurred. I don't think this is wrong, it really depends on the presentation of the story.

I've rather enjoyed using 1st person present tense, as I feel it invokes a more intense and personal experience. Play around and see what suits your needs with the story best; it's different for each one!

M. Hendrix

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Oh, Miss Shy Person...I think I may have figured out what a pooter might be after all...and assuming your pooter was made within the last twenty years or so, it should have a microphone thingy...

Of course, not having a microphone to plug into the thingy could still present a problem...

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I LOVE that pooter! This is an old laptop. Like the old brick-type mobiles, but a laptop. I have discovered what I THINK is a hole for the mic, but... I don't have a mic. So you are all currently spared my northern accent and silly voices.

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...and I've found that just shouting into that little hole doesn't work either..

Soooo many comments... sooooo the wrong site for them...

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The picture you have posted of a pooter might be a pooter in your world, but a pooter in my world is a heavy box-like contraption

Oh, Miss Shy Person...I think I may have figured out what a pooter might be after all...and assuming your pooter was made within the last twenty years or so, it should have a microphone thingy...

Of course, not having a microphone to plug into the thingy could still present a problem...