An English guide to using suffixes to form the past and present tense.

Jack B. Martin, How to Tell a Creek Story in Five Past Tenses, International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 76, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 43-70 ...

Training yourself to switch tenses as a default when you start sharing a story can take some time to make a habit, but over time it will make your stories more interesting and engaging.