Silly question

[sistermagpie]

> Geoff:
 
> Frankly, I do not accept that writing has to conform to the rigid 
> structures of your Writing 101 which I believe is a Creative Writing 
> course? I don't think Shakespeare attended them?
> 
> I wonder what Carol, with her background in literature work feels 
> about this?
>

Magpie:
Coming from my own background in literature :-) this isn't a writing 101 case anyway. It just sounds a bit wonky when taken out of context. It's more just a sentence talking about some things in the present and some in the past. For instance, there's nothing wrong with: "Matilda's grandmother was a great beauty in her time, but her mother is known more for her arm-wrestling skill than her looks."

-m (who just finished editing a manuscript whose authors had a bad habit of switching tense mid-sentence in the bad way)