Steering the Craft Chapter Six (Reading Response)

First and most importantly, I adore the advice about how in limited third person, a writer can only write from the point of view of the person in which the story is being told.  If I'm talking about a series of events that Dominique is experiencing, I can't say "then, Lizzy was thinking about how how sad she was."  Dominique isn't in Lizzy's head, so there's no way she can know what Lizzy is thinking.  That's certainly something someone like me would have to go back and carefully read over my work to find.  A writer would definitely have to disappear and fully become that character that they are writing about in order to achieve limited third person.  Honestly, I probably have to read this chapter over, because it seems to me that the author is more in favor of the past-tense than the present-tense when writing stories.  I may have misunderstood, but I think this is what she thinks.  I think I usually write in either past tense or both.  I think the author said that writing in both tenses can be very confusing to the reader.  Anyway, this is all I can say on this chapter because I need to go back and read it more thoroughly.