It doesn't take inordinately much practice/exposure to get into the flow of (good) past writing in a language you are fluent in, and if you keep at it, it gets

It doesn't take inordinately much practice/exposure to get into the flow of (good) past writing in a language you are fluent in, and if you keep at it, it gets easier with practice. You do have to pay a bit of attention to words whose meanings have drifted over time; comparable to false cognates in a foreign language.