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RE: Svoke "The Divine Healer"
Your feed back is very much appreciated.
First, I'm glad that you like the story enough to read through it, because it held your interest.
That is the problem. I one of the general readers. haha That being said, I'm not understanding how to use the tenses in stories; like when to switch from one to the other or even do I switch and where would I switch? (Grammar flags me on this all of the time but I don't know how to correct my error without a paid subscription.)
Please, whenever the urge strikes to share your editing insight with me on my writing, I'd love to read it. I want to get better.
As a general rule, when telling a story, do not change tenses. Telling a story of something that happened dictates that it should be in the past tense.
If you write something about what you will do or something that will happen, then you will use future tense. But in such writing, you may also refer to things that are happening now (use present tense) or things that happened before ( use past tense).
Don't worry too much about that, and just keep writing. On Steemit, we have a fantastic platform for writers, so take advantage of it. I believe it will grow exponentially in the coming years.
Good luck!