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A writer is doing blog coverage of an event which is time sensitive (happens annually). The writer uses present tense for the coverage posts. Should the writer go back and reformat the old posts ...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T03:03:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/8713 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Sean Patterson
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2019-12-08T03:03:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
A writer is doing blog coverage of an event which is time sensitive (happens annually). The writer uses present tense for the coverage posts. Should the writer go back and reformat the old posts to past-tense after the event? I am a webmaster for a company that does this kind of coverage for their own events. Generally after an event they request that all posts be changed to past tense. For example: > "The event is kicking off on August 20, 2013 and will continue through August 26, 2013. John Smith will be having an autograph session during the event." becomes > "The event kicked off on August 20, 2013 and continued through August 26, 2013. John Smith had an autograph session during the event." I was wondering if anyone else does this, or if it is standard to leave time-sensitive posts as the tense they were originally written in.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2013-08-26T19:31:31Z (about 11 years ago)
Original score: 8