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— How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee
==I was interested in this idea of the self brought to a confrontation with the past through the structure of the narration.
I found that writing in the present tense acted as self-hypnosis.
Discussions of the use of the tense speak often of the effect on the reader, but the effect on the writer is just as important.
Using it casts a powerful spell on the writer’s own mind.== And it is a commonly used spell.
==The present is the verb tense of the casual story told in person, to a friend—So I’m at the park, and I see this woman I almost recognize .
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.—a gesture many of us use.== It is also the tense victims of trauma use to describe their own assaults.