This is present tense writing.<br/><br/>The boy hits the ball.<br/><br/>Past tense writing.<br/><br/>The boy had hit the ball.<br/><br/>All good writing is done with the former. You write like the top option you are writing present tense.<br/>It seemed everyone was confusing themselves so I thought I'd give some concrete examples.<br/><br/>My bad I Frankensteined two examples. Fixed it. Oops missed the S.