Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Dialogue, prose, pace & style · Working

Future tense

Also called: future-tense prose

ELI5

Writing that describes events as expected or meant to happen later.

Used in conversation

“Can we make the future tense clearer in the next draft?”

Definition

Writing that describes events as expected or intended to happen later.

Here “Future tense” means: Writing that describes events as expected or intended to happen later.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Future tense” in story, structure & screenplay conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • Past tenseComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
  • Present tenseComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.