Board Thread:Writer's Showcase/@comment-4665292-20180608193616/@comment-5733573-20180609154916

Squidmanescape wrote: VerminGoat wrote: PS: Is the correction by Squidmanescape really a correction? I mean, wouldn't "led" be just as correct as "had led", if not more...? I don't want to revert it because that'd make me look like an asshole who's overprotective of his stories, especially if it's actually (more) correct. Also, the entire sentence before the edit was, "After all, it was not my seed that led to her conception; it was the monster's that had been slowly pulling the strings ever since my wife died in labour." I thought that because the second one started with "had", and they were both happening before the past in which the story is told, they should both start with "had". I would argue that neither "had" is needed.