And does anyone else have that issue where you set out to write a story in the past tense and it falls into the present tense if you're not conscious of it all the way through?

In about everything I write actually. And I can't tell when I look back over it because I'm horrible at being subjective about stuff I write.

Pep, right. I haven't even STARTED on my ficathon fic. I only just started thinking about what it was going to involve YESTERDAY. Is this making you feel better?