User talk:Tstanek06

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Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
Hello there, Tstanek06 and hoping you are safe, well and happy wherever you are. I am editing the "plot summary" of the Interesting Narrative, and you will notice (I've just done Chapter 3 so far) that I am re-setting it in the present tense. This is a courtesy note, as the History of the article reveals that you have done multiple edits putting it in the past tense. Please allow me to observe that plot summaries in the past tense are deadly (literally) because they lack dynamism. They also in my view have an air of "storytelling", as if to a child. I am also working with the sentence structure, which needs variety. Plto summaries in general (as far as I remember from my degrees and postgraduate study) are best rendered in the present, which gives them immediacy. So, with your goodwill, I shall get around to recasting the lot and tightening the sentences. (Only bits that are "past" for the author of the book, in HIS narrative, go into the past, and sometimes in the perfect past.  etc. etc. )    Again, keep well, thanks for not reverting my edits while this is underway. I've been reading the book. It's an education. Best regards, FCleff (talk) 22:44, 15 October 2020 (UTC)