It's a complicated challenge, this single life. On your own, shunning both dependency and isolation, you adjust after a while ...

The idea that young writers are defaulting to present-tense narration out of a failure of nerve is not new. William Gass lamented this as a trend in the New York Times Book Review in 1987.

Wharton Professor: Follow the Present Tense Rule to Be Instantly More Persuasive and Charming. This subtle change to how you speak will give you an instant charisma upgrade.

Think about why the present tense may or may not work in your own writing. Experiment with a paragraph in the present and past tense to see which feels best. It's up to you.

Tense is the grammatical concept that captures the time of an action. It reflects the time frame in which an event takes place, whether it is the past, present or future.

“The Rupture Tense” begins not in the present but in the historical past, with the photographic archive of Li Zhensheng, who left behind almost 100,000 images of China’s Cultural Revolution.

Urban Strategy in the Present Tense is a conversation series featuring notable urbanists discussing their frontline work in urban resilience, as well as sharing their insights about public ...

Browse previous present tense episodes . Urban Strategy in the Present Tense is a conversation series created by the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation with Drexel’s Urban Strategy Masters Program, ...