Fiction often isn't supposed to be either framed as a retelling of stuff that's already happened or set in the past (often it's set in the future, but explicit

Fiction often isn't supposed to be either framed as a retelling of stuff that's already happened or set in the past (often it's set in the future, but explicit use of the future tense is rare). Sometimes it even switches between current period story narration and background/flashbacks though I'm struggling to think of an example that does this really well primarily through tense shifts. And casual conversation often retells anecdotes in the present tense even when explicitly over a past of time 'so eventually they stop, and I think to myself' because it's sounds more dynamic. Which is probably part of its appeal to new writers. That and it being common in writing that is popular or esteemed now, and absent from old literature of the nineteenth century, much like repetitive chord progressions with modal harmony and the odd chromatic passing tone on top... Maybe in 100 years time writing in the future tense will be commonplace and microtonality will be the starting point for new composers.