Present tense works just fine in third person.

Permission Beta request by Bramandin on 2016-04-18 16:54:00 UTC Reply

Anyone who gives me their email can have their private copy of these files.

Kelly and September, the discussion on why DAC got shut down
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x8w05NFvSPj-4lC93DslHTBF9DOgbOR1q5lpTMJi4mg/edit?usp=sharing
Random prompt... the brackets mark where I need to do research.

The Firefly roleplay without the in-mission notes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nQ88VA8Z1sc8n6M78UYa3rIo-414avFF2rkUcP4Wr_c/edit?usp=sharing
I don't think I actually fixed anything since last time.

Kelly and Injerd - present tense get a mission
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17CqXUDCybZaoia8Z4jtPo52AocmSVOfw9hgJUcmul0U/edit?usp=sharing
I actually don't like writing in present tense. I'm including Injerd in a prompt because I might end up using her first.

Characters
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oYxAHh69rvTqc-qOrtkuswJzH-2jYkKHPiR9zNa8ODY/edit?usp=sharing
I don't know why I bother. The ones that aren't voices in my head yet aren't going to stick to the script for long.

If I go AWOL by Bramandin on 2016-04-22 16:26:00 UTC Reply

I'm still interested in a beta. If I look like I'm missing, it's because I'm going through some things and sometimes getting to a library is difficult. I did find one that's not so loud, but it's a bit of a drive.
A word of advice... by SkarmorySilver on 2016-04-18 22:36:00 UTC Reply

I'd recommend against posting the links to your beta material publicly. Beta reading is meant to be pre-access and behind closed doors, so that you can improve your content prior to public release. I'd also advise to ask your betas if your material is ready prior to requesting Permission; that's something you didn't do last time and we all know what happened then. ^^;

That being said, I'm very sorry for not being able to beta at all until now, due to my job and other commitments taking up most of my time. I'll make it up to you as soon as I can, though given my schedule I can't guarantee I'll be able to do as much as other betas can. And anyway, I'd suggest getting multiple betas to help you out, as at least two or three would be better to catch stuff one alone could miss.

I have limited internet. by Bramandin on 2016-04-20 15:11:00 UTC Reply

I never know when I'm going to be on next, so it speeds up the process to let a volunteer grab things directly. There aren't any nibbles yet, but hopefully it doesn't mean anything.

Trouble finding stories. by Bramandin on 2016-04-18 17:06:00 UTC Reply

There are a few stories that I have in mine to do, but I don't have a good one for September's first mission.

Both of these seem like the charge list isn't long enough.
The first one is NSFW
fanfiction.net/s/11601940/1/
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3857283/1/Chapter-4

This one seems like it might not be a wow-bang mission.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5120113/1/The-Lost-Girl

I think this one should be her third at the earliest.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/243350/1/Remembering-Jada

I do not want to do "It's not a blender" or whatever that Star Trek one is... too many charges and I'm probably going to avoid trollfic.

I kinda want to make September the Sci-fi partner and Injerd the Fantasy partner. But September would be writing a letter about the rewrite.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1444418/1/Halfheart
Question by Bramandin on 2016-04-18 16:55:00 UTC Reply

If the story that's being sporked is in present tense, does the mission have to be in present tense as well?

A note: by DawnFire on 2016-04-19 07:53:00 UTC Reply

There is no rule that I'm aware of against writing missions in present tense. However, it's pretty uncommon in general, and (like Des said) is usually only used as a gag or a brief obstacle when it turns up in badfics.

~DF

Right. by firemagic on 2016-04-19 15:38:00 UTC Reply

You can try and write it, but it will be very hard to pull off properly. It's like writing in the second person.

The Only Way I Could Really See It Working... by sjosten on 2016-04-20 04:54:00 UTC Reply

Is if you wrote the mission in first person. I'm not sure how you'd write an Agent PAIR in first person without using the same perspective flipping that we use a charge, but it could be neat if done correctly. It would just be really hard to do correctly, and also pretty much wreck any ability to do a crossover mission, since your style of writing missions wouldn't mesh with anyone else in the PPC.

Present tense works just fine in third person. by DawnFire on 2016-04-20 18:04:00 UTC Reply

At least in my experience of reading and writing it. I've never tried a PPC story in it that I remember, though I certainly could give it a go sometime--could be interesting.

As for first person... interestingly enough, I used it for part of a currently mostly finished mission, for a couple of reasons. It wasn't the agent's default setting, though--but that would be very interesting to try out, and I wish I'd stop getting so many ideas right now, because it isn't at all the best timing /stares down brain/

But yeah, third person present tense can work very well, until it jars you out of it and you go 'wait, this is in present tense? I didn't realize until just now'. And so on. But it does work.

~DF
Um... by Bramandin on 2016-04-20 15:15:00 UTC Reply

How does "I actually don't like writing in present tense." imply that I'm going to be doing it all of the time?

I have messed with first person, though I'm not great at it. Captioning for the blind actually has third person objective.

At This Point, We've Shifted the Topic a Bit by sjosten on 2016-04-20 17:57:00 UTC Reply

Your previous post has made the rest of us (or maybe just me) start talking about how a present tense mission could work out. I'm not necessarily prescribing that you make use of any of this, I'm just thinking out loud about what might work.

You just stick with one agent. by Huinesoron on 2016-04-20 10:03:00 UTC Reply

Like Narto or Huinesoron, and where have my line-breaks gone? Burning stars.

hS

No. by Desdendelle on 2016-04-18 21:14:00 UTC Reply

However, you can use "being in present tense for a while" as a gag. Just... not the whole mission, it makes it a pain to read. Same goes for script, centre alignment, italics, second person, etc etc.