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Third person point of view.
What Tense and Point of View Should I Use in My Memoir?
"What tense and point of view should I use in my memoir?" This was a question posed to us last Saturday after one of our personal history seminars.
"What a great topic for a blog post," I thought. So here it is!
Tense and Point of View
Here are two narrative conventions we must consider when writing our life stories: tense and point of view.
Tense
Tense is the indication of the period of time in which the story is happening: past, present, or future.
Past tense: "The motorcycle came to a screeching halt in front of my house.
Autobiography is written in what person
I cringed as I saw my father peering at us through the window."
Present tense: "The motorcycle comes to a screeching halt in front of my house. I cringe as I see my father peering at us through the window."
Future tense: "The motorcycle will come to a screeching halt in front of my house.
I will cringe when I see my father peering at us through the window."
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