Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting
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How to Write a Flashback in a Prologue
If it's powerful enough to need a flashback then saying all right let me tell you the story break and we actually go into in-scene telling the story inside of going on. I find that for me break and have the flashback as a separate chapter works my favorite way of doing flashbacks. Let readers date to know your character first before you spend a lot of time in flashback to who they were. The other thing the other litmus test for me is cut the flashback hand it to a beta reader and see if they still understand the story and if they do do not put the flashback back in.
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