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Whichever you prefer. Sometimes you are describing a memory, and it just comes out in past tense, and sometimes it all comes out in present. Just make sure the description is all written in the same tense!

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Descriptive writing can be written in either past tense or present tense. The choice between past and present tense depends on the author's stylistic preferences and the effect they want to achieve in the writing.

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