Sometimes I mix and match in a story giving the feeling that a situation is either happening now or has already passed by giving the book a recollection of events type of feel but, I don't know if this is the best way to do it.
Is it best to compile a book on a past tense i.e. using words like 'was' and 'had' or in a current happening now kind of tense therefore using words like 'is' and 'has'?
Thanks for all your support and comments.
I write past tense and one of my main editing jobs is removing 'was' and 'had' along with my favourite and most overused unnecessary, 'that'.
You don't need actually need most of those conjunctions, whatever tense you write in. But whatever you do, try not to mix tenses unless time-hopping is essential to your story. Most times I've read this type of narrative in the past it's been done poorly :(