Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott is written in 2nd person and a good read. I think the opening chapter is traditional third person but the meat of it is written as if the reader is one of the characters. It's worth picking up if you see it sitting on a shelf somewhere.
Short segments seem to work in present tense but unless you're writing in a limited first or third person there's no way to convey anything that's happened in the past or outside the scope of the narrator. You can have a floating narrator but that tends to distance you from characters. Present tense does have the advantage…
Present tense generally doesn't work for novels, short stories, sometimes, or small chunks of narrative. I can't even think of a novel written entirely in present tense.
Ah shit, that sucks balls. Belated get well soon, for what it's worth. Now you've been augmented you need to buy a red tracksuit and do things so fast it looks like you're travelling in slow motion while going 'doov doov doov doov doov'. That's what I did when they rebuilt my ankle but no one got it. I'm surrounded by…
Part of me was kind of hoping this thread would end with a big picture of hellish jacking off over a pile of cash before the forum vanished. This is a good outcome too, but, ya know.
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Only started it this morn so have no idea what's going on yet. Just finished some 50s book of short stories that I found in my mother's garage when I was doing her gardening the other week.
Apart from Bruce Willis, he should be made king of all actors and regulate that shit. I think Sam L Jackson would make a good right hand man. Someone should mail his agent and get Mel posting here. He'd fucking love it.
They were on the second page, brah. Unwyred - I'm out of the loop, what happened to you? I'm hoping you have a a twin removed from withing the depths of your stomach, I remember seein a movie like that, it was awesome.
If you're into scifi and fantasy, this fo' sho' It's somehow both and neither and generally great. KoKo by Peter Straub is pretty badass, and the Frankenstein rewoking... continuation... hmmmm... By Dean Koontz is a good read.
You gotta love a bit of lovecraft. The more you read, the better each story gets. He created a pretty in depth world/lore in which to set his stories. Lots of other authors have added to the 'cthulhu mythos' by writing more stories set in the same world. It's pretty cool to get lost in it for a night if you've nothing to…