100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
GETTING TENSE ABOUT TENSE
Is he right?
Is present tense actually cinematic?
How can you handle memory and future thought in the present tense.
Read 100 Years of Solitude: beginning. Note: “Many years later, as he was to face the firing squad he would remember…”
A. Write eight I will remembers, beginning:
“When I was 87, I remembered….”
B. 1. Write in present tense
-protagonist is doing something
-they remember some time from the past when they thought of what they were going to do in the future (or what was going to happen.)
-now in the present they do something else and think about what they are going to do.
-the narrator remarks on what things are always happening, and are still happening, and will continue to happen.
Then take your neighbour’s present tense story and:
2. Then change it into future tense. The protagonist will be doing that something.
Then pass it along to the next person:
3. Then change it into past tense.
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