So, right now I am writing a romance novel in first person, and lately the tense has been past tense. Well, now that I am at the sexy bits I feel like I have changed tenses... even though at the same time it still feels like I am in still in past tense? It's so hard to explain.

I'll use a sentence as an example.

The sentences have been like: He planted kisses down to my jawline and then to my neck.

But instead in the love scene, it's: He plants kisses down to my jawline and then to my neck.

I feel kind of stupid, like this is something basic. But can someone help put my mind at ease, or at least tell me if I need to jump back to adding "ed" at the end of some of these verbs, instead of "s"? If this doesn't make any sense, I'll try to explain it better :P

You're going to have to change the "s" to "ed". Otherwise, even if it feels like past tense to you, others will read it as present tense, since it technically is.

I'm in agreement with .

When the majority of your work is written in past tense, throwing present tense into the mix is going to confuse readers. It may not seem like an issue when writing, but the tense will make a difference in the reading of a piece.