Past or Present?

Dear authors,

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, decide whether your story is past tense or present tense, and stick to it.

Is it ever correct to switch between past and present? Sure, if your story is in present tense but includes flashbacks or memories of a previous time, the flashbacks will be in the past tense. Less common, but possible: Your story is in the past tense but includes a flash forward to the present day.

Here's an article on choosing tense from The Write Practice.

Here's another article on tense consistency from Grammarly.

Here's a video from PBS.