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#WritersCoffeeClub 26, About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain?
Second person future pluperfect tense made my headmeat bleed a little (there are a couple of paragraphs in that mode in "Palimpsest").
You will have had to try it before you will have understood why.
@cstross is this "you will have gone to the store"? Yikes. Yeah, that would be awkward to narrate in. At best it sounds like some weird hypnosis attempt.
@aubreyjones @cstross I'm getting "as was foretold in the prophecy!" from this
@aubreyjones Yep: it worked quite well for a brief interlude in a time travel story (with temporal paradoxes).
@cstross Okay Dr Streetmentioner
@cstross
But would you have been going to have had tried it if a future you would have informed you that you would have had understood the difficulties?
@cstross I love the richness of tenses and conditional modes in English. It's like the only spot where the language shows a little polish.
@cstross Dave Kellet's DRIVE webcomic has an alien race that only has that tense.
Yeah, I abandoned that whole series after the first book. Traumatized me so bad, second person is now an automatic "will not read" for me. 
@ringles Palimpsest was a one-off novella, not a book series. I think you're confusing it with something else.
@cstross
You were referring to Halting State, which isn't future tense but is second person. You didn't go on to read Rule 34 because you hated the second person gimmick so completely. 