Hi,
Today I want to write about my current reading.
The book is untitled : « Journal d’un marchand de rêve ». It is not published in English yet, but I can try to translate it by « Diary of a dream merchant ». This book is a fiction book.
At the beginning of the book the main character, a guy called Walt, said to us, that this diary could be his testament.
Then, in the first 3 chapters, he tells us about what happened three years, a week, and a day before obsequies. We don’t know for who these obsequies happened. And after that, he starts to tell us how everything happened.
Everything starts, once he came back home, after a stay in psychiatry. He starts dreaming when he sleeps. He realize that a parallel world exists : a world of dreams. When the night comes, he awakes in the same room where he is fallen asleep but in this world of dreams. There, the government send him in a place - a dream in particular, because everything over there is a dream - and it transforms in nightmare. There, there are just dead trees, mist and swamps and a girl called Banshee. Robots, vestiges of an old civilisation, try to kill them. The girl is blocked in this dream for years now, and she is searching how to leave it. But then outlaws arrived and take them as prisoners. They use them to harvest sand, which in this parallel world worth the gold in ours.
The story take place in a dark and weird ambiance and I don’t know yet, if I like the book but being different that the other type of books that I read, I am very interesting to know what will happen next.
I don’t know if I use the right tense when it comes to tell a story. I don’t know if I have to use the present or the past.
@rosalie6684 You can use either the present or the past, but you must stay consistent. I only tried to correct the grammar, but someone else could try to give you suggestions on the style.
@chazy thank you very much
This isn't 100% true about a story being either in the past or the present, because there is a thing called the narrative present tense when you tell a story that happened in the past but in the present tense. I think French has something similar? I can see that it would not be easy to use if you are not a native speaker. I would do some research on it if I were you because I don't have time, sorry.
Thank you @AshleyBlack for all of these very detailed feedbacks
Your vocabulary is really good! :) Do work on your tenses though.